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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arauthator" data-source="post: 4003818" data-attributes="member: 46168">Simply AmazingAll this rule mongering simply amazes me. I find it a bit weird that we are now in 2008 and still trying to come up with a rules system to make everybody happy from a game that was created in 1974.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. (I.E. make a spot check, you see a pile of treasure 8 feet high through the wall beside you, appear and disappear like the wall is becoming transparent. Make a Will save, you now find yourself unable to resist to walk through this blinking portal-like section of the wall.)From there I can take that player on one wild ride, giving him information to unlock a puzzle.But if it's downsizing you need, Gary Gygax is the King of the Land in that realm and he's got one heck of a nice system going.Castles & Crusades:<a href="http://www.trolllord.com/newsite/cnc/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.trolllord.com/newsite/cnc/index.html</a></blockquote>

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