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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3944377" data-attributes="member: 32740">It should have, but it hasn't always; and it should remain cooperative, but probably won't as much as you or I think it should.  By increasingly making it a players game, expanding PC strength; and by focusing on official, correct rules rather than merely useful, imaginative solutions it has for some years been less and less about cooperative play and more and more about inter-player competitiveness.  That is, who has the best character BUILD, who bends the rules to their purposes more effectively, etc.  I don't think we're quite in danger yet of seeing the game turn into PVP gank-fests, but I don't think it can be denied that it has and continues to move in related directions.Many D&D players have become quite frightened of and opposed to ANY change, but I think it is also true that D&D MUST continue to evolve.  It's going to evolve in ways that older, more conservative players DO NOT LIKE.  It will (or should) instead develop changes that appeal more to gamers whose roots ARE in MMORPG's rather than 1E or Chainmail.  This only stands to reason.  Now what effect that will have on the hobby as a whole...  I'm not making many predictions in that regard.  Talk to me a year from now after 4E has been played a while and cooler heads again prevail.</blockquote>