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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5813149" data-attributes="member: 52734">It's all about the opportunity costs; the time and money lost trying to enjoy playing the game.&nbsp; That means that in each case, the following needs to be minimized:1) Learning time (Time lost learning a new ruleset vs. actually playing)2) Prep time (Time lost preparing to run a game/characters vs. actually playing)3) Game Complexity (Time lost looking up rules/info vs. actually playing)4) Monetary Investment (Money spent vs. the value of doing another activity)Tutorial videos (either on YouTube or their own site, prominently pointed out) might help with #1.&nbsp; As would keeping the game of low complexity.I think #2 and #4 are the biggest problems for those of us with little time, especially those trying to use a VTT.&nbsp; You have the redundancy of buying the dead tree books AND pay out for the VTT (which usually has the rules built in...).&nbsp; If 5E either came with a download code that let you use the VTT free for 10, 15 or 30 days or if you could buy the VTT with included &quot;rulebook&quot; help files so that physical books weren't needed, it would be a great assistance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 5813149, member: 52734"] It's all about the opportunity costs; the time and money lost trying to enjoy playing the game. That means that in each case, the following needs to be minimized: 1) Learning time (Time lost learning a new ruleset vs. actually playing) 2) Prep time (Time lost preparing to run a game/characters vs. actually playing) 3) Game Complexity (Time lost looking up rules/info vs. actually playing) 4) Monetary Investment (Money spent vs. the value of doing another activity) Tutorial videos (either on YouTube or their own site, prominently pointed out) might help with #1. As would keeping the game of low complexity. I think #2 and #4 are the biggest problems for those of us with little time, especially those trying to use a VTT. You have the redundancy of buying the dead tree books AND pay out for the VTT (which usually has the rules built in...). If 5E either came with a download code that let you use the VTT free for 10, 15 or 30 days or if you could buy the VTT with included "rulebook" help files so that physical books weren't needed, it would be a great assistance. [/QUOTE]

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