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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 51354" data-attributes="member: 545">I suspect we only disagree superficially.I agree that the &quot;feel&quot; of the game keeps people coming back.&nbsp; But that is not necessarily the same thing as the mechanics being well designed.What do I mean by &quot;well designed&quot;?&nbsp; I mean that the number and pages and complexity of the rules are as small as possible to give you a particular &quot;feel&quot;.&nbsp; In other words, you are getting good bang for the buck, and consequently spending less time poring over rule mechanics.In that respect AD&amp;D 2e, Vampire, and Shadowrun are quite mediocre IMO.&nbsp; But the games succeeded anyway.My guess is the &quot;feel&quot; of D&amp;D is more how the power levels scale than necessarily anything to do with AC or HPs.&nbsp; At 1st level you can confidently take on 1 &quot;mook&quot;.&nbsp; At 5th level you can probably take on 25 mooks.&nbsp; 100 mooks at 10th level, etc.&nbsp; That is a very strong power curve.I have my doubts that DR armor would necessarily matter much one way or another in terms of the power curve.&nbsp; Obviously lots of details would need to be rewritten, but the mechanics are not necessarily going to be more complicated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 51354, member: 545"] I suspect we only disagree superficially. I agree that the "feel" of the game keeps people coming back. But that is not necessarily the same thing as the mechanics being well designed. What do I mean by "well designed"? I mean that the number and pages and complexity of the rules are as small as possible to give you a particular "feel". In other words, you are getting good bang for the buck, and consequently spending less time poring over rule mechanics. In that respect AD&D 2e, Vampire, and Shadowrun are quite mediocre IMO. But the games succeeded anyway. My guess is the "feel" of D&D is more how the power levels scale than necessarily anything to do with AC or HPs. At 1st level you can confidently take on 1 "mook". At 5th level you can probably take on 25 mooks. 100 mooks at 10th level, etc. That is a very strong power curve. I have my doubts that DR armor would necessarily matter much one way or another in terms of the power curve. Obviously lots of details would need to be rewritten, but the mechanics are not necessarily going to be more complicated. [/QUOTE]

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