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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6215388" data-attributes="member: 59082">[MENTION=3400]billd91[/MENTION], I agree with you, and don't consider D&D to equate with "fantasy roleplaying game" - that's part of why I love the game more than, say, Runequest or Ars Magica. I do think there are irreducible rules elements - like using a d20 as primary and all polyhedral dice; HP and AC; the six primary ability scores; the core classes and races, etc. After that it gets hazy crunch-wise.In terms of fluff, its harder to define what is irreducible. Otyughs and owlbears aren't used in every campaign, but they are "very D&D." Vorpal swords and staff of the magi. Etc.The feeling is derived from a combination of irreducible crunch and the vast "D&D canon," from flame tongues to drow. But the feeling itself isn't reducible or reliant on any one thing, any specific factor or even combination of factors. For each of us it differs, if only slightly. I think where a lot of people inevitably get upset, and some will get upset with 5E, no matter how great it is, is when they get too attached to their own unique brand of D&D. I think Mearls & Co are trying to create a form of D&D that is as adaptable as possible to different variants, that is made to be house ruled - that encourages it, even. So the system will be simply, but the entire body of D&D ideas will be usable in whatever combination individual DMs and campaigns so desire. I very much agree with your last few sentences - that's what I'm hoping for as well.</blockquote>

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