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I've never I've never seen rules as much of a hindrance (unless they were awfully bad), but more of a tool to tell an interactive story. Knowing them gives you more freedom to do things within them a little bit elegantly. Your example of poison could be done by only bending a few rules. You...

or or a bard, paladin, or cleric?

I'd contend that to teach someone the very basics of 40 different weapons probably wouldn't take any longer than modern basic training does. We're talking basic attacking and defending here, not intricate highly skilled combat with each weapon in which the nuances of each weapon are particularly...

"Hero" Hero is a subjective term and to say that characters will be "more heroic" is somewhat silly IMO. In my mind, I always determined that a D&D character became a "hero" (1st level PC) the moment they decided to step out of a mundane life and decided to become an adventurer. With that...

Just make it an option This is an issue people differ on largely, and rarely is one person swayed from one camp to another. Why not just make it an option as a standard? I personally don't care which is standard, fixed or rolled, I'll use fixed. I dislike rolling for a number of reasons many...