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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4922090" data-attributes="member: 18280">I imagine that some people feel that roleplaying games are analgous to ice cream, and that D&amp;D is analagous to a particular flavour of ice cream.&nbsp; As there are many varieties of chocolate (or chocolaty) ice cream, so there may be many varieties of that &quot;D&amp;D flavour&quot;.When a person, in my understanding, says that &quot;X isn't D&amp;D&quot; it is analogous to saying &quot;The package says chocolate, but this is karob bean at best&quot;.Of course, unlike chocolate/karob bean/strawberry, there is no objective measure of &quot;D&amp;D flavour&quot; -- people use different metrics.&nbsp; And that's okay.&nbsp; It no more devalues the term than, say, &quot;New School&quot; or &quot;Old School&quot; are devalued by people using different metrics as relates to those terms.As far as the OP goes, respectfully disagreeing with Gygax should be simple enough.&nbsp; AFAICT, the man encouraged it while he was alive.&nbsp; Disrespectfully disagreeing with Gygax, and trying to get people to accept it as respectful disagreement might be a bit more difficult, however.......but not more &quot;wrong&quot; than disrespectfully disagreeing with anyone else.IMHO, of course.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4922090, member: 18280"] I imagine that some people feel that [i][b]roleplaying games[/b][/i][b][/b] are analgous to ice cream, and that D&D is analagous to a particular [i][b]flavour[/b][/i][b][/b] of ice cream. As there are many varieties of chocolate (or chocolaty) ice cream, so there may be many varieties of that "D&D flavour". When a person, in my understanding, says that "X isn't D&D" it is analogous to saying "The package says [i]chocolate[/i], but this is karob bean at best". Of course, unlike chocolate/karob bean/strawberry, there is no objective measure of "D&D flavour" -- people use different metrics. And that's okay. It no more devalues the term than, say, "New School" or "Old School" are devalued by people using different metrics as relates to those terms. As far as the OP goes, respectfully disagreeing with Gygax should be simple enough. AFAICT, the man encouraged it while he was alive. [i]Disrespectfully[/i] disagreeing with Gygax, and trying to get people [i]to accept it as respectful disagreement[/i] might be a bit more difficult, however.......but not more "wrong" than disrespectfully disagreeing with anyone else. IMHO, of course. RC [/QUOTE]

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