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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Mhoram" data-source="post: 7760963" data-attributes="member: 4789">I have to say this is good about this article - in describing a playstyle that is not his own, the OP doesn't talk like it is the word of God from on high like previous articles have; We have &quot;because it’s so vastly different from the styles I’m accustomed to &quot;, &quot;Some people don’t care. I do.&quot; &quot; as far as I'm concerned&quot; &quot;doesn’t fit with my semi-military notions of what’s going on. &quot; - so that is a good thing.The Blame Game (tm) is well in force, as normal; noting 3rd edition (which as has been pointed was preceded by years by other systems doing the same thing), and of course, blaming video games. The thing I see continually is the conflation of &quot;RPG&quot; with &quot;D&amp;D&quot; - what is described as the OPs preferred style is a common style of D&amp;D. Many many major games/genres do not play like this - White Wolf Games (as has been mentioned), CoC (where combat is to be avoided), most superhero games (to be true to genre death either is very rare, or easily recovered from).&nbsp; This limited focus seems to indicate a lack of knowledge of other games (which I honestly don't think is what is going on, given the length of the OP's exposure to RPGs) or the dismissal of them, in which case the term RPG should be stricken from his articles and say &quot;earlier versions of D&amp;D&quot; to more accurately focus on what subset of games that is being referred to.Getting past the biases and outright factual mistakes makes it difficult (for me) to discuss the substance of what may be in these articles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Mhoram, post: 7760963, member: 4789"] I have to say this is good about this article - in describing a playstyle that is not his own, the OP doesn't talk like it is the word of God from on high like previous articles have; We have "because it’s so vastly different from the styles I’m accustomed to ", "Some people don’t care. I do." " as far as I'm concerned" "doesn’t fit with my semi-military notions of what’s going on. " - so that is a good thing. The Blame Game (tm) is well in force, as normal; noting 3rd edition (which as has been pointed was preceded by years by other systems doing the same thing), and of course, blaming video games. The thing I see continually is the conflation of "RPG" with "D&D" - what is described as the OPs preferred style is a common style of D&D. Many many major games/genres do not play like this - White Wolf Games (as has been mentioned), CoC (where combat is to be avoided), most superhero games (to be true to genre death either is very rare, or easily recovered from). This limited focus seems to indicate a lack of knowledge of other games (which I honestly don't think is what is going on, given the length of the OP's exposure to RPGs) or the dismissal of them, in which case the term RPG should be stricken from his articles and say "earlier versions of D&D" to more accurately focus on what subset of games that is being referred to. Getting past the biases and outright factual mistakes makes it difficult (for me) to discuss the substance of what may be in these articles. [/QUOTE]

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