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Is D&D Too Focused on Combat?
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<blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 7733598" data-attributes="member: 9789"><p>A thread about opinions! Everyone loves giving opinions, so I'll post too!</p><p></p><p>I think D&D has a large number of rules concerning combat - really more than anything else - which tends to make it seem focused on combat. (4.0 was 10x more focused this way.)</p><p></p><p>But D&D is a game about people sitting around and telling stories to each other, and that means that each group will have its own focus based on its own tastes. So to claim something like "D&D is too focused on combat" is pointless because any group that wants less can have less.</p><p></p><p>And now, the statistically meaningless personal anecdote: we don't have a lot of combat in our game because we don't like it as much.</p><p></p><p>Opinion granted! Please place it in the pile of 8 (and growing) pages' worth of other people's opinions who also won't be read by most people who are more eager to give their own opinions than read others'. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> (I sure didn't read anyone else's.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evilbob, post: 7733598, member: 9789"] A thread about opinions! Everyone loves giving opinions, so I'll post too! I think D&D has a large number of rules concerning combat - really more than anything else - which tends to make it seem focused on combat. (4.0 was 10x more focused this way.) But D&D is a game about people sitting around and telling stories to each other, and that means that each group will have its own focus based on its own tastes. So to claim something like "D&D is too focused on combat" is pointless because any group that wants less can have less. And now, the statistically meaningless personal anecdote: we don't have a lot of combat in our game because we don't like it as much. Opinion granted! Please place it in the pile of 8 (and growing) pages' worth of other people's opinions who also won't be read by most people who are more eager to give their own opinions than read others'. :) (I sure didn't read anyone else's.) [/QUOTE]
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