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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5196377" data-attributes="member: 2067">Right. Though I don't think Ari's campaigns suffer from that, if he's lamenting that he can't quite liberate himself from all the rules-stuff he's learned to appreciate. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I don't disagree, I just don't consider a lack of balance to be necessarily something against a system. Especially a system that isn't really involved in its own rules.Ari seems a bit stuck in Stage 2 as far as his house rules go. Though I don't really think Stage 3 is necessarily a natural or even desirable progression, since it is essentially just getting back to Stage 1, but with more jargon. I think that a player who can say "I'm the best duellist in the land" without having to know exactly the bonii that my seven feats give me and which paragon paths to take and how to position my mini on a map is a great goal for a game that wants to be as accessible as possible....and then might hit Stage 4: Re-Streamlining: "Why do I have to have deep knowledge of system jargon to pretend to be a magical elf? Well, I guess I don't. I guess I can be a magical elf without having to read 900 pages of rules and buying $500 worth of minis and mapping tools and special dice. I can just do it by flipping a coin."...and then the process starts all over again. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Tools need to have a purpose. A hammer is a tool for increasing power. A computer is a tool for processing information. A game is a tool for education. A D&D rulebook is a tool for pretending to be a magical elf. You don't need much in the way of tools to do that. In fact, you don't need any. If you have any, it is only because you want them, not because they are somehow objectively useful in pretending to be a magical elf.</blockquote>

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