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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9381070" data-attributes="member: 7006">Some people like having 75 different mechanics that all accomplish the same thing.  Other people would rather there just be a couple mechanics that get used many different times and ways.  One way is more complex than the other because you have more to remember.If you want more complexity in the game, then sure, you'd rather want the 75 different mechanics.  But if you want less complexity or you want the game to progress at a faster speed, you'd rather have the couple mechanics that you've got down pat and can speed through their use.Unfortunately for some people... all the cries of "THINK OF THE NEWBS!!!" that people have been shouting for a decade when it came to the rules have seen their cries actually accomplish something-- WotC has made the game a bit easier to understand by pushing most effects into only a couple buckets.But at the end of the day, it's doesn't really matter.  Because WotC is banking on all of us doing what we always do when we see things in whatever version or edition of D&D that we don't like-- we either just get over it and realize it doesn't actually matter in the long run, we change it ourselves to become a rule we find more palatable, or we don't play the game at all and move elsewhere to a new RPG.  And WotC is fine with any of these three options we take.</blockquote>