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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3789341" data-attributes="member: 48965">You know, the latter part of your post really hit a chord with me and why I'm drifting towards Runequest...Swords and Sorcery.&nbsp; This is my prefered &quot;style&quot; as well.&nbsp; I'm not sure D&amp;D ever did S&amp;S really well(closest was Dark Sun...man I miss that setting), but I will say that I feel the changes that 3.x made and seem to be the direction for 4e are, IMHO, moving further and further away from S&amp;S aesthetics (even to the point where they are directly at odds with them.).&nbsp; The funny thing is Mongoose has made a concerted effort to cater to this type of fantasy.&nbsp; First with Conan d20 then with the Lankhmar, Elric, Hawkmoon, etc. games for Runequest.&nbsp; All the games run off the Runequest rules so everything is compatible if you want to do a homebrew.&nbsp; In the end maybe it's just me not keeping up with the times, but heroes like Elric, Corum, Imaro, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser call to me more than...well whatever heroes D&amp;D is trying to model at this point in my life. &nbsp;I like dangerous magic that you risk your very soul to cast(or in the case of some weapons wield) but, if successful, rewards beyond your wildest dreams.&nbsp; I want incomprehensible gods that wage eternal wars of subtlety across an infinite number of planes and tempt you with power in exchange for your servitude and corruption.Give me the blasted ruins of long lost civilizations who used alien technology and soul-binding pacts to rule over your people in times past.Give me &quot;real&quot; monsters that aren't hordes of humans in funny clothes, creatures that are individual and totally unknown to the PC's and take every ounce of cleverness and bravado to defeat.&nbsp; Yeah, I don't see how this stuff is for older generations, it's freakin timeless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 3789341, member: 48965"] You know, the latter part of your post really hit a chord with me and why I'm drifting towards Runequest...Swords and Sorcery. This is my prefered "style" as well. I'm not sure D&D ever did S&S really well(closest was Dark Sun...man I miss that setting), but I will say that I feel the changes that 3.x made and seem to be the direction for 4e are, IMHO, moving further and further away from S&S aesthetics (even to the point where they are directly at odds with them.). The funny thing is Mongoose has made a concerted effort to cater to this type of fantasy. First with Conan d20 then with the Lankhmar, Elric, Hawkmoon, etc. games for Runequest. All the games run off the Runequest rules so everything is compatible if you want to do a homebrew. In the end maybe it's just me not keeping up with the times, but heroes like Elric, Corum, Imaro, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser call to me more than...well whatever heroes D&D is trying to model at this point in my life. I like dangerous magic that you risk your very soul to cast(or in the case of some weapons wield) but, if successful, rewards beyond your wildest dreams. I want incomprehensible gods that wage eternal wars of subtlety across an infinite number of planes and tempt you with power in exchange for your servitude and corruption. Give me the blasted ruins of long lost civilizations who used alien technology and soul-binding pacts to rule over your people in times past. Give me "real" monsters that aren't hordes of humans in funny clothes, creatures that are individual and totally unknown to the PC's and take every ounce of cleverness and bravado to defeat. Yeah, I don't see how this stuff is for older generations, it's freakin timeless. [/QUOTE]

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