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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8183077" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>If you are already playing previous editions, why are you playing 5E at all? Because to get to here, you've already travelled the long road up from OD&D wherein the game has already lost SO MUCH of its various "identities" along the way. The "identity" of 5E D&D is much, much different than the original "identity" of the original Dungeons & Dragons of Basic or even AD&D. But if you are happily playing 5E D&D... that tells me that all these little micro-rules that keep getting changed over the last 40 years perhaps aren't as integral to the game's "identity" as you really want us to think.</p><p></p><p>I mean let's get real here... racial bonuses to ability scores CAN'T be integral to the identity of D&D, because they got ADDED to D&D several editions down the line. And if the changeover from demi-human ability score minimums and maximums INTO ability score bonuses/penalties didn't "kill" D&D identity... changing <em>which</em> bonuses demi-humans get most certainly won't either. And trying to claim otherwise is on its face ridiculous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8183077, member: 7006"] If you are already playing previous editions, why are you playing 5E at all? Because to get to here, you've already travelled the long road up from OD&D wherein the game has already lost SO MUCH of its various "identities" along the way. The "identity" of 5E D&D is much, much different than the original "identity" of the original Dungeons & Dragons of Basic or even AD&D. But if you are happily playing 5E D&D... that tells me that all these little micro-rules that keep getting changed over the last 40 years perhaps aren't as integral to the game's "identity" as you really want us to think. I mean let's get real here... racial bonuses to ability scores CAN'T be integral to the identity of D&D, because they got ADDED to D&D several editions down the line. And if the changeover from demi-human ability score minimums and maximums INTO ability score bonuses/penalties didn't "kill" D&D identity... changing [I]which[/I] bonuses demi-humans get most certainly won't either. And trying to claim otherwise is on its face ridiculous. [/QUOTE]
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