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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 2382426" data-attributes="member: 6779">Heh ... I remember when "THAC0" was a newfangled idea, and D&D had been chugging along fine without it for years.What makes D&D? Honestly, for me, it's:*The Dungeon. Other games have adventure locations, some of them even have underground complexes from time to time. But D&D is the only game I've played where sooner or later, geometrically-shaped rooms on graph paper is always a major part of the gameplay.*Iconic Monsters. Beholders, mind flayers, carrion crawlers, kobolds, drow, green rubbery trolls with broccoli for hair ... these things let you know you're playing D&D rather than, say, Tunnels and Trolls.Anything else, as far as I'm concerned, is up for grabs. You could run a game using Fantasy HERO in which the characters go down into a Dungeon and fight beholders -- I'd think of that as D&D, and sign me up!My own personal list of things I'd love to see gone from D&D forever is pretty straightforward:*You Are What You Wear. D&D is way too gear-dependent for my tastes. I like class-based Defense Bonus; I like the Conan d20 method of having stats go up across the board instead of having to wear a headband of intellect and a periapt of wisdom and gauntlets of ogre power and a ring of dexterity and a belt of constitution and a cloak of charisma and half-a-dozen ioun stones whizzing around your head.*Vancian Magic. I'd love to see that cow made into Sacred Hamburger.One other thing I'd like to see is magic scaling better. Magic missile is a good example: it's a first level spell, but it's just as useful at 9th, as opposed to sleep or cure light wounds, which rapidly become useless just a few levels down the road. Who needs five versions of cure X wounds? Just make a single cure spell that levels up with the caster.   -The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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