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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 9702755" data-attributes="member: 6698278">I think a single game should not try to please everyone.  Too many people want to play rules as written and blindly follow them wherever they go.  I'm for mechanical innovations like roll high etc..  But changing the fundamental playstyle of D&D to something like PbtA is not something I'd support.   I'm still mad they seem to care not a whit about dissociative mechanics so they pepper every edition since 4th with things I'd have to houserule out.  When the houserule gets big enough you just houserule something else or write your own.  I think for me I'll just write my own and then stick with it.If D&D were a flaming disaster of a failure, then I'd say they need to do something different but in that case the brand wouldn't be carrying the product.   Instead we have a great brand because it represents something people do like.  D&D though is always trying to be all things to all people.  They swing back and forth.  I do agree that 5e was a swing "back" from 4e but it's hardly a game predicated on 1e's playstyle.  It's still very much a style based on ideas strongly the opposite of traditional D&D.Now I am very happy that the OGL has provided a way out.  I'm not trapped in the D&D ecosystem.  I can play any number of others games.  I can modify those games.  I can write my own and use a lot of D&D stuff in my game (not everything but the SRD covers a lot).</blockquote>

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