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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 1871429" data-attributes="member: 23977">My apologies if I misread your post? I'd rather not get into an argument. I'm simply attempting to create coversation. I appologise if I offended in some way.As to your post, maybe my responses weren't clear enough.You are saying (I think) that D&D is whatever the gaming community and the company says is D&D. That none of the things people have said attributewise can be what it is because they change, and are likely to change again perhaps many times... Furthermore because people have their own house rules and such that it is changed even more.But my question prompted by this is WHY is that? Why is it different then other forms of art? If I were to take an existing book, and change several chapters and republish it, but say it WAS the same book would this be accepted? If Not WHY is it in this form.I guess my question is WHAT IS D&D. Not in refference to other games, but in refference to itself? What exactly is D&D. Is D&D the game that was first published. Or is it a collection of the entire thing (IE every edition and house ruled edition.)  Is that original piece D&D while other editions are simply other fantasy RPGs or are ALL of them together D&D? I *think* what your saying is it's the entire thing. But I want to know why it's the entire thing, because to me this seems different then other forms of artwork. Again, I'm not trying to argue a point. I'm just trying to converse and question things. For fun. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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