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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5203850" data-attributes="member: 82106">The latter I would say. The existing status conditions seem like a pretty fundamental set for the most part. I don't really know which ones you could get rid of easily. Perhaps we COULD live without Immobilized AND Restrained. The large number of 'penalties' as you put them do get annoying. Over time the number of them that are likely to be in play at any given moment has grown. 4e was supposed to be clean, simple, and fast and now its definitely competing with 3.x for bookkeeping chores. Go back and play a game of 1e sometime, this aspect is almost non-existent. Heck, I played in the very early days of the original D&D, you tracked hit points and your spells, and maybe some item charges, arrows, and how much gold you had. It took literally 2 minutes flat to do up a character. Play rarely interacted with the character sheet, there are advantages to that. Often I find with 4e I have to focus my brain so much on tracking things that there's little room for anything else. If there were ever a 5th edition I would strongly advise its designers to restrict each character to one ongoing effect and remove that as a concept from monsters except as a special feature of exceptional monsters.</blockquote>