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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 5941071" data-attributes="member: 6669048">Depends on how you play it. If you constantly try to screw each other over right out of the gate, yes. But if you play like my group tends to where everyone's nice and friendly until half the table is in the level 7-9 range and then all those curses and wandering monster cards come out, it tends to go pretty fast.Back on topic, I agree with your sentiment but not for the reasons stated. The core rules should be incredibly simple to understand with easy to learn mechanics not so that college students can play while hammered, but so that anyone can play quickly. My friend who is obsessed with Skyrim but has never played D&amp;D because it looks too hard or my little 10 year old cousin who's obsessed with Harry Potter. The core game should be designed so that I can explain the rules to them and get them playing (assuming pregenerated characters) just as fast as we would if we were playing a board game. The rules modules should build on that core so that players who want more depth and complexity can add that in without an issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 5941071, member: 6669048"] Depends on how you play it. If you constantly try to screw each other over right out of the gate, yes. But if you play like my group tends to where everyone's nice and friendly until half the table is in the level 7-9 range and [I]then[/I] all those curses and wandering monster cards come out, it tends to go pretty fast. Back on topic, I agree with your sentiment but not for the reasons stated. The core rules should be incredibly simple to understand with easy to learn mechanics not so that college students can play while hammered, but so that anyone can play quickly. My friend who is obsessed with Skyrim but has never played D&D because it looks too hard or my little 10 year old cousin who's obsessed with Harry Potter. The core game should be designed so that I can explain the rules to them and get them playing (assuming pregenerated characters) just as fast as we would if we were playing a board game. The rules modules should build on that core so that players who want more depth and complexity can add that in without an issue. [/QUOTE]

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