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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5647548" data-attributes="member: 22779">Just a further thought.The longer I play RPG's, the less likely I am to decide that one system must fit all things.  I've really embraced the whole "right tool for the right job" mentality.  This might explain why I look at D&D as a "combat" tool.  It certainly is combat shaped and has all the right bits and bobs to do that.  I don't really look at it as a "explore theme" tool because, well, it doesn't have those bits and bobs.I tried for years to run a decent naval campaign using the 3e ruleset.  I couldn't make it work very well and I've come to realize why - the magic system REALLY gets in the way, the skill system isn't built for naval campaigns and the basic unit of play in D&D - the individual - doesn't work well when you need to control dozens, if not a couple of hundred individuals at the same time.Try running a naval combat in 3e between two largish ships with a crew of 50 apiece and watch what happens.  You think 4e combat is grindy.  Heh, you ain't seen NOTHING.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So, if I were to try to run another fantasy naval campaign, it wouldn't be with d20.  I'd likely move over to something like Corsair or there are a few other games that catch my interest.  OTOH, if I wanted to run a game of fairy tale fantasy, where the characters act like fairy tale characters, again, D&D is the last system I'd choose.  I'd use <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seven-Leagues-RPG/178287328887545" target="_blank">Seven Leagues, a fantasy roleplaying game of Faerie by Hieronymous </a> which is a great game.So, to me, system very much matters in whatever kind of game I want to run.  If I wanted to do Arthurian fantasy, again, there are a horde of great systems out there that fit that model so much better than D&D does.</blockquote>

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