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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 349447" data-attributes="member: 2785">Disagree, of courseThe system isn't inherently childish, though it can be cumbersome to rationalize certain core concepts of D&D (such as resurrections) while trying to maintain a level of suspension-of-disbelief. I think that D&D's strength lies in its generic nature, which allows DMs to sculpt the ruleset how the like to suit their fantasy world. This is especially true of 3rd edition. Other RPGs have their strengths, but more often than not certain core concepts of the setting are anchored to the ruleset in such a way that you're either running the game's default setting, or you're not running the game. In other words, it's easier to divest the rules from the setting in D&D to run what you want, and that's a strength. This is a strength of some other systems too (GURPS comes to mind), but in the end, D&D is simple, familiar, and unapolegetically true to itself. To each his own; I don't bash other RPG players for enjoying what they enjoy. I could say that Harn or Worlds of Darkness games are vague and cumbersome, and that all people who play these games are elitest snobs, and I'd be just as accurate as these fellows bashing D&D and its players. Which is to say, completely inaccurate.</blockquote>