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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8266244" data-attributes="member: 18">That's a serious case of believing what you want to believe, mate, come on.The reality is that many D&amp;D groups house-rule stuff in crazy, crazy ways, whether they work or make any sense at all. No other game has ever suffered from this as severely - it's not because D&amp;D actually is easy to hack, it's because D&amp;D encourages people to make up rules (and has done in all editions except 3E and 4E) in the actual rulebook. If D&amp;D was genuinely &quot;easy&quot; to hack it would be less of a problem because most of the changes would merely be logical extensions of existing rules approaches - this would be true for most of the generic RPGs, such as those mentioned by Umbran. Instead with D&amp;D it tends to be idiocy that stems from people not even understanding the rules. This is amazingly obvious when you get &quot;what are your house rules?&quot; threads on reddit (or even here, at least a few years ago), where literally 40-60% or sometimes even higher of the &quot;house rules&quot; stem from people not knowing the rules, often making up house rules to attempt to &quot;fill gaps&quot; which aren't actually gaps at all - just the person making up the rules doesn't even know the rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8266244, member: 18"] That's a serious case of believing what you want to believe, mate, come on. The reality is that many D&D groups house-rule stuff in crazy, crazy ways, whether they work or make any sense at all. No other game has ever suffered from this as severely - it's not because D&D actually is easy to hack, it's because D&D encourages people to make up rules (and has done in all editions except 3E and 4E) in the actual rulebook. If D&D was genuinely "easy" to hack it would be less of a problem because most of the changes would merely be logical extensions of existing rules approaches - this would be true for most of the generic RPGs, such as those mentioned by Umbran. Instead with D&D it tends to be idiocy that stems from people not even understanding the rules. This is amazingly obvious when you get "what are your house rules?" threads on reddit (or even here, at least a few years ago), where literally 40-60% or sometimes even higher of the "house rules" stem from people not knowing the rules, often making up house rules to attempt to "fill gaps" which aren't actually gaps at all - just the person making up the rules doesn't even know the rules. [/QUOTE]

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