Originally Posted by fadedc 
I'm not sure what he means, but certainly Might and Magic had none of that, nor did many other classic old school RPGs.
I must have missed that he was referring only to the first game. I was thinking of the M&M series in general.
Originally Posted by BillSeurer 
Once again it boils down to "A cRPG is what I say it is" and with ten of us arguing we come up with fifteen definitions somehow.
True dat.