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<blockquote data-quote="pneumatik" data-source="post: 5564485" data-attributes="member: 21087">Your home games are very different from the type of game I participate in.We're perfectly happy to not have new people. I realize that's not how you grow the hobby, but if I liked meeting new people I'd have never gotten into DnD.We use our stacks of books away from the session to build characters. Stuff PCs do all the time we memorize the mechanics for. We look up stuff before our turn, or have someone else look up something while we handle our turn's other activities.Most of the DnD books are spells (powers, whatever) and magic items. Cutting down the page count necessary for the game means detailed lists need to be replaced with relatively simple mechanics that can create a large range of options. Even then it's tricky because each item in your chinese menu needs to be details. Overall rules simplification would help cut down all the individual power descriptions, but at the cost of more ambiguity in the rules (and I think the market doesn't want to pay that cost). Party interdependency allows us a lot more character design space to build PCs in. Playing a glass cannon only works if there's a tank and a healer. Changing this requires a system-wide change.OTOH, I love the advice to have your game be about what the game is about. The game should be built around its core story. Indie games force you to do this by only supporting a specific type of play.If you're looking for other short games, I love (but have never run) <a href="http://www.microlite20.net/node/3" target="_blank">microlite20</a>. It's a great example of increased ambiguity in return for shorter power descriptions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pneumatik, post: 5564485, member: 21087"] Your home games are very different from the type of game I participate in. We're perfectly happy to not have new people. I realize that's not how you grow the hobby, but if I liked meeting new people I'd have never gotten into DnD. We use our stacks of books away from the session to build characters. Stuff PCs do all the time we memorize the mechanics for. We look up stuff before our turn, or have someone else look up something while we handle our turn's other activities. Most of the DnD books are spells (powers, whatever) and magic items. Cutting down the page count necessary for the game means detailed lists need to be replaced with relatively simple mechanics that can create a large range of options. Even then it's tricky because each item in your chinese menu needs to be details. Overall rules simplification would help cut down all the individual power descriptions, but at the cost of more ambiguity in the rules (and I think the market doesn't want to pay that cost). Party interdependency allows us a lot more character design space to build PCs in. Playing a glass cannon only works if there's a tank and a healer. Changing this requires a system-wide change. OTOH, I love the advice to have your game be about what the game is about. The game should be built around its core story. Indie games force you to do this by only supporting a specific type of play. If you're looking for other short games, I love (but have never run) [URL="http://www.microlite20.net/node/3"]microlite20[/URL]. It's a great example of increased ambiguity in return for shorter power descriptions. [/QUOTE]

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