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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 1343457" data-attributes="member: 6318">The original D&D play-style is nothing like Knights of the Dinner Table. It isn't hack and slash, which quickly gets you killed, and it isn't stupid and juvenile. In its freewheeling emphasis on fun over strict rules it has a lot in common with modern RPGs other than the new D&D. The story, as ever, is what the player characters do -- the original style has plenty to do with story, just not one written in advance. Some false dichotomies here.It's absurd to talk of games or art evolving or progressing -- there are just fashions of play and ways to discuss play.Codification over time is to some extent inevitable through pure accretion, so you have to be conscious of potential delimitation and ossification and work against them. The new D&D isn't on the side of the resistance.</blockquote>