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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wes350" data-source="post: 3130917" data-attributes="member: 46014">I almost fell off of my chair in laughter at the sentence I put in bold.Boy, you need a different game. D&D does the D&D genre well, and with a good GM you can get by useing it for other stuff. But there are better systems out there for the type of fantasy adventureing I think you are looking for.I played D&D exclusively back in the day - And I tried to go back to D&D this last year after being away from the hobby for many years. Why did I break away? I found that after I've played a few d20 games, and tried out ol' 3.5, that I had never really played D&D at all! When we were young, many of the rules didn't really make sense, and so we house ruled and eliminated stuff to the point of not playing the game as the written rules intended.So now that I was trying things by the book, well, imagine my suprise!I found the whole concept of  "encounters per day" and "encounter levels" to make me shake my head in despair.The fact that combat is so map/minis based. The wal-mart pervasiveness of magic items. And the fact that the game assumes you must have a certain amount of them at higher levels.The power creep that comes with leveling up.The whole "monster of the week"  syndrome. Look at all the various monster manuals! Are that many monsters really nessicary? For the D&D genre, yes. For other types of fantasy, no.And my personal favorite:Instead of talking about cool character concepts, we have people asking about the best possible character "Builds".Now from a popularity standpoint my opinions about D&D are in the distinct minority. Many of my complaints about D&D are seen by many as features of the game. And this is demonstrated in D&Ds' dominance of the RPG market.Skeptic, if you are looking for something different, might I reccomend you take a look at the following:Rune QuestEarthDawnArtesiaWarhammer Fantasy RoleplayBurning WheelArrowflightEPIC role playingIron GauntletsOr even Unisystems all flesh must be eaten + dungeons and zombies supplement.All of these have reviews at either rpg.net or therpgsite.com.</blockquote>

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