I almost wonder if D&D has gotten sort of "Ship of Theseus*" in that its bits have kept getting replaced with smiliar but not the same (instead of just getting updated) over these last 3 editions. So that while it looks approximately same-ish, none of the bits quite fit together any more.

I mean, if D&D isn't capable of doing the various facets of common current fantasy then what's it doing? Just murder hobos genociding dungeons full of different sizes and colors of goblins while searching for "gold points"?

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