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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halfling rogue" data-source="post: 6378388" data-attributes="member: 6779182">While 5e may not be universal, it is pretty hackable. Even though we can't see to what extent that hackability will be until the DMG is released, I think it's safe to say it is much more flexible than 3e/4e (I don't have experience with 1e/2e). The potential of hackability is probably why this thread can even exist. So there's that. For me I'd like to see it hacked to be played in Middle Earth. It doesn't seem like it would take a massive overhaul to accomplish a pretty good homebrewed Middle Earth setting. The desire to use D&D as a universal/hacked system isn't hard to understand. From everything I've heard/read I'm dying to play The One Ring RPG. But I just can't justify buying it because I know that I'll never play it. It might be fun to read, etc, but I know it will not get played. That is because my friends play D&D. The thought then goes that if D&D can be hacked to give us a decent foray into the Misty Mountains (or wherever your setting is), then why bother using a new ruleset for nearly the same experience we get with a more familiar ruleset?</blockquote>