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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Odhanan" data-source="post: 5838192" data-attributes="member: 12324">If I may answer that question, even though I'm obviously not Bedrockgames here. First caveat: you like whatever you like. This is not a pissing contest, and you play the games you enjoy. I'm fine with that. It's not because you enjoy some things I don't, or some things I would not consider "D&D", that I have to magically change my mind about them. Alright. Caveat out of the way... about Oriental Adventures:Oriental Adventures is the fruit of Dave Cook's work and vision. It already contains elements of the 2essification of the game like the Non-Weapon Proficiencies, an absence of focus on the exploration of the dungeon and wilderness, and suffers from a typically Cookian POV that the foreign culture depicted is fantastical enough that you don't need to actually treat the "Dungeons & Dragons" part of ... Dungeons & Dragons (as exemplified as well in modules such as X1 -for all its merits-, X4 and so on).It can be useful as a toolbox. I appreciate some of its input, taken bit by bit, considered each on their own merits. Taken whole-cloth to run Asian-themed campaigns, it would suck, because it would not be "Dungeons & Dragons".Now, more on <a href="http://www.therpgsite.com/showpost.php?p=517092&postcount=170" target="_blank">where I am coming from</a>, and <a href="http://www.therpgsite.com/showpost.php?p=516729&postcount=335" target="_blank">why I don't like 2nd edition AD&D</a> (edit - language in those posts might not be safe for work, you have been warned).</blockquote>

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