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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildm" data-source="post: 1393234" data-attributes="member: 3264">I fall into the middle (though I voted Light) for the most part. I would classify D&D as rules-medium simply because it's the baseline and my group's standard. Everything else is relative to that, whether fair or not. As for whether rules-heavy or rules-light is preferred, I think it's a case-by-case thing. I don't mind something that can be rules heavy, as long as it doesn't bog down gameplay. I think I find that when dealing with rulesets other than D&D, I prefer rules-light systems to help with the learning curve for my group, as well as with quick adjudication of situations without referencing the rules constantly. YMMV of course, as my group aims typically for cinematic games with not alot of realism. Additionally, there are extremes to both ends of this that I don't quite like. In my experience, the Imagine role playing game was needlessly complex and on the opposite end of the spectrum, The Window would be a perfect example of too little definition to the point of it making it HARDER to quickly adjudicate a situation in game with any sort of speed and effectiveness. With one, there's so much definition in the rules that it takes away some of the excitement and speed of a dangerous situation in game by delving into minutae which may or may not really have a definite effect on the outcome. With the other, there's so little rules that it becomes hard to maintain an internal consistency, and also bogs down the game while you work out alot of what the rules aren't handling in your head. d20 as a base game system, with all it's incarnations, now runs the gamut between complex and simple. Not to the extremes mentioned above, mind you, but you can have D&D which is fairly complex, and then you've got things like Mutants & Masterminds, or Grimm (which I've not yet read, but read about, so forgive me if I'm wrong here) that strip out alot of the mechanics.</blockquote>

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