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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3900620" data-attributes="member: 2067">I can understand that, but I think it's too defensive. Innovation doesn't occur in a vacuum. Before videogames, D&D was informed by wargaming, by board games, by fantasy fiction and fantasy movies, etc.But now as then, D&D fills a niche not quite filled by any of it's inspirations, and though it may be informed and inspired by them, it will always (if well-designed) carve out it's own unique version of them all.Also, I'm reminded that this debate is more about human nature than about this specifically. The videogame vs. D&D debate follows a lot of the same polemical designs as a religion vs. science debate, and probably many other debates throughout human history. It's not about VIDEOGAMES and D&D per se. It's about something new treading on territory that has been exclusive to one group from the outside. It's a game. It's a game we should be proud of, but it's just a game. It's not sacred. It's not inviolate. It's not above "inspiration" from any medium it cares to take it from. And if worst comes to worst, your own game remains YOURS, and no one from WotC is going to make you change it. Be like them: take what works for you, discard the rest.</blockquote>