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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8265673" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Not necessarily in conflict, no. Didn’t say they were. I said that bespoke games, IME, go so hard on their theme that I am rolling dice and referencing game rules to determine if I’m turned on by my hot rival, or whatever, and that isn’t a play experience I enjoy.My direct personal experience disagrees with this claim, strongly. Some editions of D&D, sure, but not the current one. It’s extremely easy to smoothly add to 5e.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🙄" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" title="Face with rolling eyes    :rolling_eyes:" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> For the love of Melora do we really have to have the “you just only know D&D is why you have this opinion” nonsense in this thread? Can we please not?Failing forward is advice in the dmg, for a start. Skill challenges also exist. They literally use multiple rolls to make skill resolution more granular and graduated.You can also just...do a success ladder. I promise the game will handle it just fine. From experience.Why would I change combat? The issue was skills, so I changed skills.If we were friends, I could directly change your mind via personal experience. All I can really say, here, is...not in my experience. Adding a skill success ladder to 5e isnt kludgey at all, nor is replacing inspiration with half-level d6s you can use to modify any roll, regaining 1 d6 per long rest, nor any other mechanic I’ve added to my 5e games to change the play experience.Absolutely. By not having mass combat rules, there is room to deal with a pitched battle however you want. Would more advice for stuff like adding mechanics for a single scene or scenario in a game be helpful? Of course! But I hardly think I’d call D&D more flexible if it had more subsystems!</blockquote>

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