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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 4873924" data-attributes="member: 813">Read my prior response in order. It is a flow of realizing what you are saying and how it relates to the whole thread.You are complaining that D&D doesn't support guns, future tech, and a few other things mixed into fantasy. You've made it clear this is not a deal breaker for you. You just wish D&D included (let's call it) more diversity. Originally I was telling you that guns and future tech can be faked using the existing rules and changing the skin of it: a gun is a bow; a transporter beam is a teleportation portal; space combat is aerial combat with some allowance for the fact that there's no gravity. You've since said you see that but it would still be nice to see it in print.So I've come to the conclusion that if you want to see this stuff in print you should be sending emails to WotC customer support. Or you should wait 10 years. If guns and future tech mixed with fantasy is as prevalent as you say in "your generation's" fantasy. Then when "your generation" is in charge of D&D at WotC, that version of D&D will reflect "your generation's" sensibilities.Ultimately, you ask "why can't D&D cater to my tropes?" And I my first answer was "because it does not occur to the current guardians of D&D that those tropes need special rules." The current guardians of "that which is D&D" either don't believe guns belong in D&D or (as I've conjectured) feel it is so easy to reskin bows as guns that it isn't worth printing anything about guns. Someday members of your generation of fantasy enthusiasts will take the reigns of "that which is D&D" and perhaps they will print such rules because, like you, they felt it would help a large enough segment of gamers to have such rules spelled out.Have I made sense yet?</blockquote>

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