• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    10 months ago

    5e has both too many rules and not enough rules.

    It has very specific rules in some places. Item interactions, many spell specifics, grapple, holding your breath, etc.

    It has very lackluster rules in other places. Social conflict, item and spell crafting, metagame stuff like making your own class or species.

    I think a lot of people playing DND would be happier playing a different system. Just not the same system for everyone.

    • GTG3000@programming.devРусский
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      9 months ago

      It also suffers from not using consistent language and keywords in the rulings.

      The more recent rewrites are better but there would be way fewer discussions on “what exactly does this mean” if there were consistent keywords for things.

      …also I am currently writing a pile of homebrew to try and run a spelljammer game because those books they released inspired me to run a Treasure Planet campaign but didn’t give me nearly enough material.

  • AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    I hereby grant everyone permission to make up whatever rules they want for their rule sets.

    Having rules for more situations is a feature, not a bug. You can always choose not to look up the rule and make something up, but if you ever want something that a designer spent some time on instead of making it up on the fly, you have the option

    • TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.networkOP
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      10 months ago

      On the other hand, if you had basic rules be flexible and understandable enough, you could by common sense apply them to most of situations and devs could focus on polishing the edges where you would need a specific rules, which should be few and far in-between.

      • Dice@ttrpg.network
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        10 months ago

        It really is crazy how hard new players defend 5e and pf2 when so many other games make GMing actually fun and easy.