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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kishin" data-source="post: 3010745" data-attributes="member: 40956">QFT. It really boggles me when people don't seem to realize this, as it pops up almost anywhere in any given RPG system (The most recent recollection of it among my own collection was at the beginning of the Game of Thrones RPG book).Growing up, my brother, who is significantly older than I and the source of my involvement in gaming, always used to explain it like this: He'd hold up a rule book and say: "See this? What is it?" and then follow it with "Its a big book of suggestions."OD&D no more facilitates this any other system, as has been said. You're always free to ignore and change things to your liking. Also, saying gaming as a hobby hasn't improved mechanically since the days of OD&D is kinda like saying that rock music hasn't developed and progressed since the Beatles. (Which, as a musician, is one of my biggest pet peeves. Four British guys with bad haircuts, despite their unquestionable degree of talent, do not manage to constitute the entire length and breadth of the genre).Really, its another case of wrongbadfun, and ultimately its to individuals to play what they most enjoy. OD&D converts just seem to be acquiring a reputation for proselytizing the system as the epitome of the D&D experience.</blockquote>