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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6870242" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I'm completely mystified by this kind of idea myself. What exactly is 5e 'empowering' me to do? Spend lots of time coming up with rulings for things that it somehow failed to nail down? The THEORY is supposed to be, I guess, that somehow everyone wants to do it different, and if the book happens to actually be clear about something then you're verbotten from doing it any different, ever. Now, I am not actually one to think games should OVER prescribe, but in this sense 4e is both very complete AND very loose. You can run your SC any way you want, frame it any old way, etc. Same with other aspects of the game. It actually dictates LITTLE in the way of what things the characters MUST do or have to focus on, or how they should proceed (though its plethora of combat powers is certainly suggestive). I never felt so free with say 2e, where I had to constantly be trying to out think the mind-bogglingly well-equipped wizard (and my players were VERY experienced and diabolical, trust me). On top of that constantly trying to decide which crazy add-on optional rule wasn't utterly game breaking.</blockquote>