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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6279104" data-attributes="member: 92511">So D&D should just be a good little sheep and step in line, then, I guess.I'll amend the question: "Why is there this conception that if 'the staggering majority of RPGs' are doing something it's something the D&D should be/has to do?That's a gaming rule?Well, I believe 3e and 4e shoots the question of complexity out of the water. But regardless of that, as the originator of the whole RPG industry, I think I'll just continue to believe that D&D has the right (if not obligation) to remain an "outlier."Oh sure. I'll buy whatever they put out...just to have and be able to peruse, even if I never get a chance to actually play it. But I still believe the idea of a product called D&D with the DMG as an optional tool to play the game is completely foreign and utter madness.It's like going to eat at a fancy steak house expecting a prime cut of porterhouse, stuffed baked potato, and iceberg wedge salad with chunky blue cheese dressing, but instead receiving a McDonald's burger with fries. What's the problem?! There's way more McDonalds places than fancy steak houses...so we're just doing stuff like they do. It's beef...there's potatoes and lettuce...we're even throwing in a pickle and kethcup for ya! [well, there's some percentage of beef is in there someplace...](I have got to stop posting to threads in the morning before I eat something. Excuse me.)</blockquote>