Alexemplar
First Post
Yet, I am still not required to unlearn anything as I, personally, already have the knowledge of what I want conceptually. New players coming into my game...well, that may or not be a different issue.
"Unlearn" doesn't mean you literally cease to have previous knowledge of what you knew. We all know what we consider a cleric/bard/druid/etc when we're talking about it ro other people outside the context of D&D.
It refers to coming into contact with new ideas/concepts that expand upon or clash with what you knew before as it applies in the given context. I.e. we know that when discussing the PHB cleric/bard/druid/etc that we are referring to a different conceptual beast.
That you dislike these interpretations and run things differently in the games you run doesnt change that. We're still starting from the same reference point that is uniquely D&D- that had to be learned because D&D has its own idiosyncratic take on lots of stuff.