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<blockquote data-quote="awesomeocalypse" data-source="post: 5087341" data-attributes="member: 85641">QFT.&nbsp;Why do I like using D&amp;D to run and play in story-driven games? Because it is fun. More fun, for me and my friends telling the sort of stories we want to tell, than Storyteller or WHFRP or Fantasycraft or any of the other games we've tried. &nbsp;The idea that some justification beyond that is required, or that we could somehow be &quot;mistaken&quot; in our belief that D&amp;D is better suited to telling our stories than Storyteller, is silly and, frankly, arrogant and judgemental.&nbsp;On a related note, the idea that a games cannot be altered, in many cases extremely radically, from their original forms is nonsensical and unfounded. When Joe Naismith invented basketball, nobody could dribble, there was no backboard, and nobody had even heard of &quot;post play&quot; or &quot;jump shots&quot; let alone a 3 pointer. The game that Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and Michael Jordan played, that Lebron James and Kobe Bryant play today, has far less in common with the game Naismith first thought up than does D&amp;D4e with OD&amp;D. Does that mean it isn't basketball?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="awesomeocalypse, post: 5087341, member: 85641"] QFT. Why do I like using D&D to run and play in story-driven games? Because it is fun. More fun, for me and my friends telling the sort of stories we want to tell, than Storyteller or WHFRP or Fantasycraft or any of the other games we've tried. The idea that some justification beyond that is required, or that we could somehow be "mistaken" in our belief that D&D is better suited to telling our stories than Storyteller, is silly and, frankly, arrogant and judgemental. On a related note, the idea that a games cannot be altered, in many cases extremely radically, from their original forms is nonsensical and unfounded. When Joe Naismith invented basketball, nobody could dribble, there was no backboard, and nobody had even heard of "post play" or "jump shots" let alone a 3 pointer. The game that Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and Michael Jordan played, that Lebron James and Kobe Bryant play today, has far less in common with the game Naismith first thought up than does D&D4e with OD&D. Does that mean it isn't basketball? [/QUOTE]

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