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<blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 262972" data-attributes="member: 546">Wait! Because 3e feels like a video game to me, it is an inappropriate analogy for me to use? When I say that it is &quot;intended&quot; and &quot;written&quot; for a certain style of play, I back that up with People's Exhibit A, your Honor: 1. Everything that WoTC has produced for it!&nbsp; &nbsp; a. How they have geared the combat to be practically miniatures required to &quot;prepare&quot; customers for the flop that was Chainmail!&nbsp; &nbsp; b. How everything is over the top high fantasy hack-n-slash, never any other type! Other styles of play are (barely) mentioned in the DMG, but only mindless high fantasy hack-n-slash is officially supported, and this style is further supported by much of the output of the various third party publishers.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; c. How they have drastically sped up leveling, level benefits, and made it practically impossible to play without multiclassing or prestige classing! I call this &quot;morphing&quot; and this is exactly what happens to heroes in many popular video games.I rest my case. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaptain_Kantrip, post: 262972, member: 546"] Wait! Because 3e feels like a video game to me, it is an inappropriate analogy for me to use? When I say that it is "intended" and "written" for a certain style of play, I back that up with People's Exhibit A, your Honor: 1. Everything that WoTC has produced for it! a. How they have geared the combat to be practically miniatures required to "prepare" customers for the flop that was Chainmail! b. How everything is over the top high fantasy hack-n-slash, never any other type! Other styles of play are (barely) mentioned in the DMG, but only mindless high fantasy hack-n-slash is officially supported, and this style is further supported by much of the output of the various third party publishers. c. How they have drastically sped up leveling, level benefits, and made it practically impossible to play without multiclassing or prestige classing! I call this "morphing" and this is exactly what happens to heroes in many popular video games. I rest my case. :D [/QUOTE]

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