Most of you guys seriously need to play a few good games of Castles & Crusades. The whole reason Gary left DnD was the rules were getting way to complex. I myself don't have that problem because I never did rely on the rules that often. It's a game of players overcoming challenges with some dice. The rule books are just guides to get that accomplished. I as a DM ultimately have the last say, as the game was originally designed to entail. I remind my players of that, and they always agree to it, because nobody likes to play an RPG like a ding dang chess game, thinking about your next move for the next 10 minutes, or in the case of complex rules, finding it in the book. I limit what can be used at the game table to only things the player knows well. If they can't come up with something quickly to make combat move fast, I throw in role playing tactics to get that player away from the combat. They love it.
For some reason, we keep finding newer and better ways of doing things, or at least, different ways of doing things that some of us like better than the old ways. I blame creativity and imagination. It just seems impossible somehow to separate creativity and imagination from a role-playing game.
