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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SweeneyTodd" data-source="post: 2428507" data-attributes="member: 9391">I know that there's lots of people responding to lots of other people here, so I'll restate where I'm coming from. 'Cause I don't disagree with you.I grant that the majority of gamers like D&D, because it's what they buy. I even grant, after thinking about it, that if you play a rules-light game the same way you play D&D, with high detail, it might not be faster in play than D&D is.What I won't budge on, like Gandalf yelling "NONE SHALL PASS!" to the Balrog, is that there are other styles of play. Styles that work better with other systems, by which I mean with a very different focus than D&D, and much less complexity. And, call me crazy, I think it's possible that there are people out there who wouldn't enjoy D&D, but would find enjoyment in a game, involving roleplaying, played in one of those other styles. I think that's true because I run some of those games, for people who weren't interested in D&D at all, and they have fun.(Quick example from the "not a game" game we're playing now. My fiancee's PC is a thirtysomething bartender whose kids died and husband disappeared on the same night. She's been dealing with being haunted by those children, figuring out what happened to her husband, and trying to get by. There's other things going on, but that's the focus of her PC's life. We're coming up on our final session, and she might get involved in combat for the first time since she ducked to avoid a pissed-off customer with a gun in the first session. Yes, your average D&D player would have hated this. We've had a blast.)</blockquote>

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