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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 4506116" data-attributes="member: 1645">I think you've taken that too far, because, as I said earlier, some game systems can directly contradict what we expect out of D&D.Something like Rolemaster was meant to be Really Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, so playing through Keep on the Borderlands with it would have still felt like D&D, but with a slightly different flavor.I think it's  a terrible mistake to pretend that system has no effect on how we play a game, because we know people play differently when given different rulebooks.On the other hand, a few cosmetic changes to those rulebooks can often turn them into a new edition of D&D, rather than a totally different game.</blockquote>