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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9238539" data-attributes="member: 22779">Really?&nbsp; There's all sorts of potential pitfalls?&nbsp; But, I just got told that 5e is so friendly to kit bashing.&nbsp; That it was an incredibly easy system to modify and make your own.&nbsp; So, which is it?&nbsp; That's where transparency comes in.&nbsp; That earlier editions weren't particularly transparent isn't a surprise.&nbsp; No one would argue that 1e was a transparent system after all.&nbsp; Yikes.&nbsp; So many of the design decisions there are so baroque that no one really knew why things where the way they were, and often players and DM's would simply rewrite large swaths of the game simply because the way the game was written is so opaque.But, if you write your game and make it transparent - Designer sidebars, explanations within various rules showing why and how this or that thing came about.&nbsp; THAT'S what transparency means.&nbsp; It's not vague in the slightest.&nbsp; Why are the various suggested DC's what they are in the DMG?&nbsp; What happens when you start changing those DC's?&nbsp; Why are given spells at a given level?&nbsp; 3e had a listing in the DMG that talked about the suggested damage per level of the spell based on the caster - cleric vs wizard, that sort of thing.&nbsp; So on and so forth.&nbsp; Of course it won't happen.&nbsp; If they show how the sausage was made, the fandom would lose their collective poop.&nbsp; So, the DMG remains vague and unclear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9238539, member: 22779"] Really? There's all sorts of potential pitfalls? But, I just got told that 5e is so friendly to kit bashing. That it was an incredibly easy system to modify and make your own. So, which is it? That's where transparency comes in. That earlier editions weren't particularly transparent isn't a surprise. No one would argue that 1e was a transparent system after all. Yikes. So many of the design decisions there are so baroque that no one really knew why things where the way they were, and often players and DM's would simply rewrite large swaths of the game simply because the way the game was written is so opaque. But, if you write your game and make it transparent - Designer sidebars, explanations within various rules showing why and how this or that thing came about. THAT'S what transparency means. It's not vague in the slightest. Why are the various suggested DC's what they are in the DMG? What happens when you start changing those DC's? Why are given spells at a given level? 3e had a listing in the DMG that talked about the suggested damage per level of the spell based on the caster - cleric vs wizard, that sort of thing. So on and so forth. Of course it won't happen. If they show how the sausage was made, the fandom would lose their collective poop. So, the DMG remains vague and unclear. [/QUOTE]

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