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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6030627" data-attributes="member: 42582">My own edition debates have a slightly different motivation - after all, I spent nearly 20 years GMing a non-D&amp;D system (Rolemaster), and once my 4e campaign finishes I'm hoping to run a Burning Wheel game.I just get irritated by 4e being labelled as a non-RPGing, tactical combat chassis which has no capacity to handle non-combat conflict resolution or meaningful theme or story; and by the generalisations about RPG design (say, the role of non-simulationist metagame mechanics) that such labelling implies.If D&amp;Dnext isn't a game I want to play that won't bother me - I just won't play it! But I don't think I'm doing any harm in saying what I would like to see in it. (For instance, I'm not in the position of having already decided to ignore it and just trying to spoil it for others - and there are features I quite like, like backgrounds - though they could be beefed up a bit, and both skills and traits have better connections to the action resolution mecahnics - and also bounded accuracy.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6030627, member: 42582"] My own edition debates have a slightly different motivation - after all, I spent nearly 20 years GMing a non-D&D system (Rolemaster), and once my 4e campaign finishes I'm hoping to run a Burning Wheel game. I just get irritated by 4e being labelled as a non-RPGing, tactical combat chassis which has no capacity to handle non-combat conflict resolution or meaningful theme or story; and by the generalisations about RPG design (say, the role of non-simulationist metagame mechanics) that such labelling implies. If D&Dnext isn't a game I want to play that won't bother me - I just won't play it! But I don't [I]think[/I] I'm doing any harm in saying what I would like to see in it. (For instance, I'm not in the position of having already decided to ignore it and just trying to spoil it for others - and there are features I quite like, like backgrounds - though they could be beefed up a bit, and both skills and traits have better connections to the action resolution mecahnics - and also bounded accuracy.) [/QUOTE]

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