Thanael
Explorer
Many people have said that "4E is not D&D" and this has been hotly debated. So i ask the community the following question: What is D&D? What defines it? What sets it apart from other FRPGs?
IMHO it is the following iconic things that make D&D what it is: iconic monsters/races, iconic classes, the class/levels system, the D20 mechanic, Vancian casting, iconic spells, iconic items. To a lesser degree the alignment system and the Great Wheel cosmology. If you remove all of those you're not playing D&D anymore imho. If you remove some of them you're playing a variant.
IMHO it is the following iconic things that make D&D what it is: iconic monsters/races, iconic classes, the class/levels system, the D20 mechanic, Vancian casting, iconic spells, iconic items. To a lesser degree the alignment system and the Great Wheel cosmology. If you remove all of those you're not playing D&D anymore imho. If you remove some of them you're playing a variant.
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