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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philature" data-source="post: 6931648" data-attributes="member: 6862917">Playing RPGs the way you want is what make them so cool. Everyone can play D&D differently with as many or as little changes or modification as they want from the official rules.It is a spectrum between 1 to 0. 1 if it your own games. 0.5 you play with some third party or self created materials and 0 if it all based on the official release.I think some people like playing with the official rule only to see what the designer(s) is/are up to. This is something I often do for new games I never played before. It give me the chance to understand the rules and figure out where the designer(s) is trying to go. Then, I start to add new materials or create my own.Playing d&d with official material only is as valid as any other approachs. I could imagine that someone new to the hobbies would actually prefer using the official rules only at the beginning especially in this century. Back 25 years ago, third party material was fairly limited to the stuff I came up with (D&D magazines were hard to get by and that was before OGL). But today, there is so much third party content available online that it could become quickly overwhelming for a group of new players. This is why I found your comments of playing with official rule only as “being beyond me” not very constructive. Basically, you are just saying my way of playing RPG is better than yours which is obviously not true.Playing the games with official material only should be as respected as playing with all third party brew or even your own system. There is no way to play RPGs wrong.</blockquote>

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