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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3834327" data-attributes="member: 30001">Your still playing Dungeons and Dragons though.  That's a game from the '80s, at best.  Then again, that was my point - who really cares?  In fact, the game is about stealing tropes from ancient and medieval history - so something being old fashioned, you would think would be a virtue.  In any case, from a 50,000 foot view of the situation, I was having a hard time seeing how one form of DnD was cool and another wasn't since most people in the world would laugh at the idea.  You seem to come down very hard on games with flour mills.  I remember a magical mill as one of my more interesting encounter areas, so it hurt my feelings.I'm the DM about 95% of the time in the games I play, and the people I play with own lots of books but they probably play 95% of the time.  Now they've got tons of books for all sorts of things and they read them for fun, or maybe try to talk me into incorporating an element from a book into my game.  But I don't buy many new books at all.  So what we actually *use* during the game is different than what people own.  Is it different enough to say that there's no correlation between what people buy and gaming style?  I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility to me that what people buy and what they do might not match up 100%.  (Also, some of the things I have bought I wish I didn't.)</blockquote>