Post originally by Lord Ogre at 2003-08-02 23:39:29
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"Personally I found Dragon Mountain an excellent Gamemastering aide, helping me to highlight D&D's strengths (fun, low-attention span, powergaming) and downplay its weaknesses (lack of seriousness, powergaming, limited roleplaying scope)."

I have said this many times, but I always feel I have to chime in in defense of D&D 3E. We've had VERY serious roleplaying situations and VERY lengthy and dramatic combat. In fact, my experience directly contradicts what you say the weaknesses and strenghts of D20 are. To me, d20 is about options, catering to ideas, fantasy archetypes, tactical battle (to varying degrees) and whatever sort of stories and roleplaying you want (again, to varying degrees). Lack of seriousness, low-attention span, limited roleplaying, powergaming, even fun all stem from players, not the system.