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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3089909" data-attributes="member: 158">I mean no disrespect to Rodney, but the idea of this being where D&amp;D should be headed just does not fly with me. For one thing, Book of Nine Swords, while interesting, is certainly NOT what I want to see the D&amp;D game turn into. That's just... too much stuff going on. When everyone has a source of limitless power that produces a predictable range of effects constantly, it leaves the grounding of plausibility so far behind that it turns D&amp;D into Wuxia Theater, where something absolutely fantastic is going on every minute, and this is so far removed from reality that it creates a lack of a frame of reference for me. To me, the fantastic needs an element of the mundane to make it fantastic, otherwise, even the fantastic is mundane. I'm sure some like it, but it turns me off, big time.To me, the ultimate extreme that this is taken to is like something from one of Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen excerpts -- sooo out there that it's just &quot;too much.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 3089909, member: 158"] I mean no disrespect to Rodney, but the idea of this being where D&D should be headed just does not fly with me. For one thing, Book of Nine Swords, while interesting, is certainly NOT what I want to see the D&D game turn into. That's just... too much stuff going on. When everyone has a source of limitless power that produces a predictable range of effects constantly, it leaves the grounding of plausibility so far behind that it turns D&D into Wuxia Theater, where something absolutely fantastic is going on every minute, and this is so far removed from reality that it creates a lack of a frame of reference for me. To me, the fantastic needs an element of the mundane to make it fantastic, otherwise, even the fantastic is mundane. I'm sure some like it, but it turns me off, big time. To me, the ultimate extreme that this is taken to is like something from one of Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen excerpts -- sooo out there that it's just "too much." [/QUOTE]

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