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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 5125283" data-attributes="member: 467">&quot;Rules light&quot; has nothing to do with it. Reducing the page count of 3E to 200 pages would not necessitate the reduction of its complexity in the slightest -- it would merely require the streamlining of the presentation of the rules and the reduction of the number of examples of certain features (10 pages of traps can be reduced to 1 page quite easily -- it's basically what 4E's Page 42 does).There's a lot of over explanantion, white space, repetition and just plain bloat. It actually makes the game harder to use and more difficult to play because explaing something in a paragraph that can be explained in a sentence does more to obscure the intent than clarify it.I think modern books are big not because the game is &quot;rules heavy&quot; enough to warrant it, but because, quite frankly, gamers are cheap and if the books were slimmer, with less fully painted illustrations, gamers would feel like they were being cheated, despite the fact that the value of the game comes from its playability.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 5125283, member: 467"] "Rules light" has nothing to do with it. Reducing the page count of 3E to 200 pages would not necessitate the reduction of its complexity in the slightest -- it would merely require the streamlining of the presentation of the rules and the reduction of the number of examples of certain features (10 pages of traps can be reduced to 1 page quite easily -- it's basically what 4E's Page 42 does). There's a lot of over explanantion, white space, repetition and just plain bloat. It actually makes the game harder to use and more difficult to play because explaing something in a paragraph that can be explained in a sentence does more to obscure the intent than clarify it. I think modern books are big not because the game is "rules heavy" enough to warrant it, but because, quite frankly, gamers are cheap and if the books were slimmer, with less fully painted illustrations, gamers would feel like they were being cheated, despite the fact that the value of the game comes from its playability. [/QUOTE]

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