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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4143918" data-attributes="member: 1211">Providing options also runs into the issues of 1) production time and 2) page count. More options ---> more manhours ---> higher production costs ---> higher price for the consumer. That one is minor, though, compare to page count.Since the page count affects the price of the product, you could have a 500 page PHB filled with options but it would be expensive, maybe not worth the extra price.Another reason why more options can be bad: Steep learning curve. There are many people here who seem to love to get to know rules, finding combinations, adjusting bonuses and watch the effects on the system unfold. For them, a complex system is a boon, a large play ground. Other people, though, want to get on with the play or they want tactically interesting options without complexity. A prime example: Chess. The rules of chess are very simple, yet the game offers up loads of possibility for tactics.And the final reason I can think of: More options mean more to balance against all other options. I remember when I first got Starcraft. I was used to Command & Conquer and other RTS-games where there were loads of units. Then I saw Starcraft and I was disappointed that there were so few units per faction. Then I realized that in Command & Conquer, all you needed to do was to build mammoth tanks. Other units weren't required. In Starcraft, all units are usable during the entire game. The zealot is the first unit you can build but they never get obselete by design.Now a days, I much rather have few powers that are well thought out and adjusted against the other powers in the game than loads of powers where a few of them come out as plain superior to the rest. It creates an illusion of choice which is really quite limited.Just my POV of when more choice can be bad. Of course, more choice can be good too <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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