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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6560890" data-attributes="member: 177">What he's doing is implicitly saying, &quot;I get to say what D&amp;D is and is not,&quot; which he has no right to do.&nbsp; Inappropriately assuming authority over others is generally insulting, which is why this kind of assertion was the basis of so many vicious arguments in Edition Wars, and why I reject it now.Something that so many people miss is that, with so many people playing the game so many ways, &quot;Dungeons and Dragons&quot; is effectively defined as a genre* - and exclusive genre definition generally fails.&nbsp; Genres are defined by what is in them, not by what isn't - you have a list of tropes and themes, and if you have enough of them, you are in the genre, even if you also include things not on the list.*Or as simply, &quot;that which WotC labels D&amp;D.&quot;&nbsp; But this latter means that anyone using anything like a house rule, or otherwise stepping away from the content published by WotC or under license is not playing D&amp;D, which seems pretty ludicrous to me in this discussion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6560890, member: 177"] What he's doing is implicitly saying, "I get to say what D&D is and is not," which he has no right to do. Inappropriately assuming authority over others is generally insulting, which is why this kind of assertion was the basis of so many vicious arguments in Edition Wars, and why I reject it now. Something that so many people miss is that, with so many people playing the game so many ways, "Dungeons and Dragons" is effectively defined as a genre* - and exclusive genre definition generally fails. Genres are defined by what is in them, not by what isn't - you have a list of tropes and themes, and if you have enough of them, you are in the genre, even if you also include things not on the list. *Or as simply, "that which WotC labels D&D." But this latter means that anyone using anything like a house rule, or otherwise stepping away from the content published by WotC or under license is not playing D&D, which seems pretty ludicrous to me in this discussion. [/QUOTE]

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