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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4019118" data-attributes="member: 5143">I, on the other hand, agree with the idea behind this philosophy.  The strength of D&D is that it is a fantasy game.  It is capable of some extraordinary things where you can shoot fireballs from your hands, you can be an elf, and work your way up to defeating the gods themselves.It's strength is how it allows you to simulate a world completely different than our own and imagine what a world would look like where all of these things existed.However, in the past, D&D has introduced all of these fantasy elements and then hid them away where no one could see them or use them.  The elves were always hiding in the forest and they never came out.  The dwarves hiding in their mountains and never coming out.  Magic was something normal people never used or even saw(except VERY rarely).  It was dark ages Europe(or ancient Egypt, or ancient Greece, and so on) with a couple, hidden fantasy elements.The ideal for 4th Edition is that if we have all of these interesting things they should be USED.  Why not have a world where water flows up...just because it can?  Why not create a city where all of the races of D&D live in harmony with one another in equal numbers?  Why not have an empire ruled by Lizardmen, one ruled by Beholders, and one ruled by humans rather than 3 ruled by humans with only slight differences?</blockquote>