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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 349646" data-attributes="member: 99">First of all, Shark, I respect you a great deal from what I’ve read of your posts.  But, for future reference, I think it is generally a bad idea to take derogatory comments from a message board and post them on another.  I’ve seen some ugly stuff happen when the two camps collide.But I can confirm that there is at least one other instance of another gaming board where I posted having a generally “anti-D&D” flavor to it because they perceived the game as “simplistic”.  I argued until I was blue in the face and actually, most of the folks there ultimately agreed with me that while D&D wasn’t their cup of tea, it was just as valid a roleplaying system as any other.  A few diehards insisted that D&D and d20 “SUCK!” (The irony of those individuals calling D&D simplistic was lost on them.)I have had a similar experience to Joshua Dyal.  I was introduced to RPG’s through AD&D and played it for years.  I was young and immature and so were most of the guys I played with and so were most of the games that I played in.  When I started to mature, I was introduced to another system that was more skill intensive and started to feel that an utter lack of skills was a failing of the AD&D system (I sort of still do.).  So I moved to this other system and played it almost exclusively for about a dozen years.  Along the way, I even co-authored one of the companion books for that system.  But ultimately I started to feel that the system had become bloated and encumbered by too many confusing rules and excessive minutiae.When I was looking for other possible systems as alternates, it took some time for me to get past the memories of the “immature” (but often very fun) D&D games that we played in our teens.  Eventually I made the leap to 3E and I loved it.  We’ve been playing it exclusively since then and I think it has an almost perfect level of flexibility for my tastes.</blockquote>

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