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Originally Posted by Skunkape
As far as role-play vs roll-play, the ability to do that is entirely in the hands of the group as well. Personally, I've never liked level based systems, though I have pulled things from those systems in the past and have even run 2 3.5 campaigns, very successful campaigns at that.
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Exactly. The only real degree to which a system impairs roleplaying has to do with two issues: the degree to which it mandates character design choice (this is an area class systems have always had some problems with, but there's a conflict intrinsic in campaign design constraints there too, so rules design isn't the only issue there) and the degree to which it mandates removing player choice (which is why I'm of the school that says that manditory (as compared to optional) personality mechanics are often anything but a benefit to roleplay). D&D4 might have some issues on the former ground (but no worse than many games do), but I see nothing to suggest it does on the latter, and everything else is really an issue of people, not the game system.