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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 4085958" data-attributes="member: 17969">To me, D&D is a Role Playing Game in which:-PCs portray heroic characters.  Not heroic in that they do good things, but heroic in that they do amazing things--that they are larger than life.-The action takes place in a magical world that resembles Earth's past.  Doesn't have to be medieval:  Anything from the stone age to the Victorian Era can still capture the D&D feel.-The world is populated by creatures drawn from myth (elves, dragons, minotaurs), creatures inspired by fiction (halfling, mind flayer), and creatures unique to the game (Beholders, Shadar-Kai)-Conflicts are resolved primarily through combat.  Not always, but often enough that combat is the main focus of the game's ruleset.-In which actions are resolved by rolling a small number of dice, and comparing or applying the numbers rolled, rather than scoring successes or similar.Or(and this is important)-A game whose rules are substantially similar to those described above, and whose setting and character are created as a response to or outgrowth of the Dungeons and Dragons game.This last point covers settings like Dark Sun, Planescape, And even Urban Arcana, which all feel like D&D to me.This is a pretty broad set of criteria, that can easily cover a lot of games besides D&D.  Which is entirely appropriate, since I've often played other RPGs and thought to myself "This game feels like D&D".</blockquote>