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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5918473" data-attributes="member: 83822">I think you and I probably use D&D in quite different ways. You seem to approach it as a toolbox for playing all sorts of fantasy games, whereas I see it as a set of rules for playing a narrow sub-genre of games.Since you brought up Star Trek, I guess the closest analogy for me is Star Wars: when I pick up the Star Wars RPG, I have very clear expectations about what mood my game will be. Now, I might be playing in the Old Republic with no Ewoks, or well in the future with different Force adepts of my own invention, or playing before Episode IV but completely ignoring the prequels ... but even so, I'm still playing Star Wars, and not Star Trek or A Space Odyssey or anything like that. Likewise, when I pick up D&D 5E, I'm going to be using it to play a narrow range of fantasy settings: Forgotten Realms, Golarion, Greyhawk, Spelljammer, that sort of thing. These settings share a lot of races, just as the different time periods in Star Wars share a lot of races. I don't want to use 5E to run Harry Potter, Tolkein or A Game of Thrones, and I doubt it would do a good job even if I tried. For those games, I'll try Boarsdraft, or The One Ring, or Polaris.I think your approach is equally valid, and hopefully 5E will have room for both of us. But I wanted to explain why my perspective is different to yours.</blockquote>