Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
D&D's Evolution: Rulings, Rules, and "System Matters"
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8403538" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>I agree with your first paragraph, but I think that "official" having that uniformity and coming from the publishing company makes it easier to confirm and more likely to have read than any homebrew rules. </p><p></p><p>For example, If I wanted to talk about the crafting rules for DnD 5e, I can reference Xanathars and PHB with some expectation that a person who plays 5e owns the PHB and has at least a familiarity with Xanathars. I really can't assume that about the work of Kibblestasty, whose crafting system I've been working to integrate, because it does somethings I like. </p><p></p><p>Again, it is a matter of a shared baseline, and yes, I can confirm if you have read the homebrew material and then once we are both familiar with it we can discuss it, but that process is more difficult than assuming that you have read the "official" rules to a game you are playing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't disagree with any of this. Again, I place no inherent value in official rules being better or worse than the homebrew material. I have encountered many homebrews I find superior. I myself have homebrewed extensively. But solely on the grounds of a shared baseline, my personal homebrew is not something that can be brought into a rigorous debate, because I'm the only one familiar with it. No one else is discussing the rules in the context of my homebrew, so it makes it incredibly difficult to make them part of the discussion from the beginning. Much easier to simply stick with the official rules, make sure an understanding is reached, and then branch out from that shared understanding to include things like personal homebrew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8403538, member: 6801228"] I agree with your first paragraph, but I think that "official" having that uniformity and coming from the publishing company makes it easier to confirm and more likely to have read than any homebrew rules. For example, If I wanted to talk about the crafting rules for DnD 5e, I can reference Xanathars and PHB with some expectation that a person who plays 5e owns the PHB and has at least a familiarity with Xanathars. I really can't assume that about the work of Kibblestasty, whose crafting system I've been working to integrate, because it does somethings I like. Again, it is a matter of a shared baseline, and yes, I can confirm if you have read the homebrew material and then once we are both familiar with it we can discuss it, but that process is more difficult than assuming that you have read the "official" rules to a game you are playing. I don't disagree with any of this. Again, I place no inherent value in official rules being better or worse than the homebrew material. I have encountered many homebrews I find superior. I myself have homebrewed extensively. But solely on the grounds of a shared baseline, my personal homebrew is not something that can be brought into a rigorous debate, because I'm the only one familiar with it. No one else is discussing the rules in the context of my homebrew, so it makes it incredibly difficult to make them part of the discussion from the beginning. Much easier to simply stick with the official rules, make sure an understanding is reached, and then branch out from that shared understanding to include things like personal homebrew. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
D&D's Evolution: Rulings, Rules, and "System Matters"
Top