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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5474281" data-attributes="member: 18280">OK, here's a data point for you:There needs to be a Dungeon Master.[MENTION=9171]Lalato[/MENTION]:  I'm not at all certain that I accept your premise that no one who is skeptical of a universal "D&D Experience" is willing to share their experiences of D&D.  Certainly, many of them have in many, many threads.  I do think that your posit that a "gotcha" moment might occur is valid, though.  EN World certainly has a plethora of members who, intentionally or not, will take parts of a post out of context to bolster their point.  While it is never my intention to do so, I am dead certain that I have done so many times in the past.  So this is not an unreasonable concern.And, again, the onus is not on the skeptics.  Unless, of course, they want to convince you to be skeptical.  In which case, the onus is on them.The only reason I haven't thrown a hat into the ring of defining what links all editions of D&D (really, of trying to define why I think 4e is D&D, despite what I feel are large differences between it and earlier editions) is because I don't have anything intelligent to say on the topic at this time.  I really don't know why I believe 4e is D&D.But I am trying to figure it out.  And when I have at least a bit of it figured out (enough to say something worth reading), I'll share it.Part of that process, I think, is going to come from reverse engineering another 4e module, which I intend to do over the weekend (if partner and children permit me the time).R - editting to fix my sig - C</blockquote>

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