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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9087318" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, I'm not.That's the point.&nbsp; I keep getting told that my experience with older versions of D&amp;D was either &quot;Well, no one actually played that way&quot; or &quot;You don't understand the rules&quot; or &quot;Well, DM's would just change those rules and would always change them in a way that lines up with my preferred playstyle.&quot;It's incredibly frustrating.&nbsp; What is &quot;old school&quot; is often built on goalposts with rollerskates.&nbsp; The whole &quot;Most Lethal Edition&quot; thread (<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/lethality-ad-d-and-5e-looking-back-at-the-deadliest-edition.698685/" target="_blank">https://www.enworld.org/threads/lethality-ad-d-and-5e-looking-back-at-the-deadliest-edition.698685/</a>) is just this entire song and dance on repeat.&nbsp; People keep insisting that we have to respect everyone's playstyle, but, that only seems to apply if I happen to play the way you played.&nbsp; ((You being a generic you, not you [USER=6747251]@Micah Sweet[/USER]))&nbsp; Anyone who has differing experiences is just thrown under the bus and discounted.And if I point to actual quotes from the books, it doesn't matter, because the &quot;DM will just change that&quot;.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm&nbsp; &nbsp; :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />&nbsp; It would be really nice to actually discuss older editions and not whatever Frankengame people happened to be playing at their table.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9087318, member: 22779"] But, I'm not. That's the point. I keep getting told that my experience with older versions of D&D was either "Well, no one actually played that way" or "You don't understand the rules" or "Well, DM's would just change those rules and would always change them in a way that lines up with [I]my [/I]preferred playstyle." It's incredibly frustrating. What is "old school" is often built on goalposts with rollerskates. The whole "Most Lethal Edition" thread ([URL]https://www.enworld.org/threads/lethality-ad-d-and-5e-looking-back-at-the-deadliest-edition.698685/[/URL]) is just this entire song and dance on repeat. People keep insisting that we have to respect everyone's playstyle, but, that only seems to apply if I happen to play the way you played. ((You being a generic you, not you [USER=6747251]@Micah Sweet[/USER])) Anyone who has differing experiences is just thrown under the bus and discounted. And if I point to actual quotes from the books, it doesn't matter, because the "DM will just change that". :erm: It would be really nice to actually discuss older editions and not whatever Frankengame people happened to be playing at their table. [/QUOTE]

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