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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5622644" data-attributes="member: 42582">I agree with this, excpet with a substituion of "expected" for "wanted" in the last clause. It is precisely because 4e differed from what I had traditionally expected from D&D that I now want to play D&D.The last sentence here seems pretty plausible, if a lot of people agree with, or (in terms of their own perceptions and feelings) exemplify the first sentence here.I personally have a fairly uncertain handle on the roots of D&D's style of game - there is classic Gygaxian D&D, there is the much more character-focused way that I played Basic/Expert and then D&D (which enjoyed some support in Dragon magazine in the mid-80s), there is heavy sim-style world-building exploration (which enjoyed a lot of support in Dragon around that time), there is 2nd-ed era GM-driven storytelling (which irritated me at the time and which I'm even more averse to these days), there is 3E which I don't really get at all (I don't see what 3E offers that Rolemaster - perhaps with a Fate point system to allow players to mitigate criticals vs their PCs (heck, let's publish it and call it HARP!) - doesn't do better - but that's probably just me). And the 3E of Pathfinder adventure paths looks different to me from the 3E of many ENworld posters' sandboxes.But the fact that I like 4e because of its mechanical departures from earlier editions probably makes me an outlier in the way I engage with (or fail to engage with) D&D's roots.</blockquote>

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