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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5755385" data-attributes="member: 58416">I think this is a good question to ask.  It ties into what I was getting at with a few of my posts both here in this thread as well as ones I've made elsewhere.For me, my answer was that I was lead to believe McDonald's made pizza -to keep with the same analogy.  The vast majority of my rpg experience at one time had been D&D and virtually nothing other than D&D.  I was vaguely aware that other games existed, but I mostly assumed that most ways of rolling dice and playing a rpg were pretty much that same.  I did have a very brief period of playing Rifts when first introduced to the hobby, but the GM of the game I was in did most of the rolling for players and my time with the game was very brief, so I did not see a lot of how it worked at the time.  So, honestly, my education level concerning games and game design was very poor at that time.  Looking back on some old posts I made concerning D&D, I can now admit to myself that I held a lot of opinions about what I thought I liked due to not knowing any better.  While some of 4th's changes were things I did not like (some were things I did like too,) they helped me to discover (through being so different from what I knew in 3rd) that there was more to pretending to be an elf or slaying a dragon than simply rolling a d20, and that styles of mechanics might actually change the flavor of the game.I suppose my personal answer is that for years I had been eating chicken nuggets and thinking they were pizza.  I had been told it was pizza.  Not ever having pizza, I had no idea that McDonald's chicken nuggets were not pizza.  Now that I've had pizza, I am aware that it tastes nothing like chicken nuggets, but there was a time when I would have never known the difference.  Had somebody told me I was eating what I thought was pizza the wrong way, I would have argued with them and defended my chicken nuggets as being the real pizza.It would not surprise me to find that there are others right now who are eating 'chicken nuggets' and believing they are in fact pieces of 'pizza.'</blockquote>

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