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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 487522" data-attributes="member: 8704">Ok I'll go with you more on that line but there is still alot more to it.  I have played games where the one who made the kill was the one who got the experience, heck i think D&D might of been that way at one time, but I cannot remember if it was the rules or a house rule in the first group I played with (I sold my first edition books in college for food money). I think 3rd edition has made huge strides to try to get away from being combat based. I also think that it is real easy to get characters who have no business in combat. Yes they all get stronger every level, but they really don't stay all that equal there is alot of diversity designed in. Most rogues just are not all that good in combat with the exception of the sneak attack, they are more suited to other task than combat. I could go on but I already have before.I will agree with you totally on characters getting cocky as they get stronger, I am not a real fan of hit points myself, I am sort of partial to the strory teller damage system, you can only take so many hits no matter how strong you are. But D&D scales to get harder with levels too so the extra hit points are balanced by stronger monsters. Yes survival is built into leveling up to a certain extent but fighting skills, physical or magical, just vary too much. I think how much combat based the game is relies more on who is running and who is playing than on the general rules.Combat has been a big part of every rpg I have ever played, the vast majority of games are at least half conflict based,  Even the Chaosium COC has large sections of the book related to combat, because it will happen. I have never looked at d20 COC so I can't speak on how it relates. I have never played a role playing game of any type that didn't have combat in it. the systems differ, the danger differs but they all have it and it normally turns out to be a important part of it. D&D characters all can fight but it is up to the person making the character on how well they can, and that goes for just about every game out there.</blockquote>

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