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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4871837" data-attributes="member: 32536">Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 7 have no real level grinding to speak of. Final Fantasy Tactics had some level grinding, but only in direct proportion to the number of characters you wanted to use. If you stuck with a limited five character team, it is practically non-existent in that game. You know, I am 25 and I am on the old end of that particular generation gap. The idea of finding Megaman 9 to be unplayably hard is completely alien to me...I don't want to be some kind of English nazi (even though I have the credentials), but if you are talking about the English dub of Cowboy Bebop, then you are talking about an anime, not a manga. "Manga" is the japanese word for comic book, "anime" is just short for animation, and these words are not interchangeable, especially since something Escaflowne has both an anime and a manga version (as well as an anime movie and a second manga series), and these things are extremely different stories.Err... so? That says less about whatever kind of connection they might have than anything mentioned in this thread so far. It doesn't change the fact that they don't have any direct connection whatsoever. The things that Final Fantasy pulled from D&D are very different than the D&Disms that appeared in Record of Lodoss War.I mean, I could clearly argue how Record of Lodoss War was almost certainly a major inspiration for Nintendo's Fire Emblem series, but that argument would not be based on something so simple as which one came first...Support what statements? That some of these things were not published under the name "D&D" and that there were differences in the rulesets between these different games? That Gamma World hasn't been officially supported by the makers of D&D in a long time? What exactly do I need to support regarding these statements? And what on earth do conversions between Vampire and d20 have to do with anything? You are seriously misunderstanding what I have been talking about.You know, I really don't like this entire line of argumentation you are using. You are basically just saying that my desire to see the game change and progress in a certain way is somehow rooted in my own failings. That it is somehow wrong for me to ask that something show in the rules themselves. Honestly, with the line of argumentation you are using, you may as well ask why WotC even puts out books at all...Actually, forget it. I already said what I wanted to say above. I don't want to say any more.</blockquote>

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