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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tewligan" data-source="post: 1252200" data-attributes="member: 2191">A couple of nights ago, I was looking at the dozens upon dozens upon dozens of d20 books on my shelves. I realized that I could easily count the ones I've ever used in a game as a player or DM on two hands, with fingers to spare. Hell, there are several books in there that I bought just because they sounded cool, and then never even bothered to READ them, let alone use them in a game. By comparison, last night before the D&D game I was flipping through my DM's old copy of Star Frontiers. That game had, what, 2 or 3 tiny supplements? There wasn't a huge glut of books detailing rules for every creature or planet or culture or sexual fetish or whatever. And it was fun. You didn't have piles of books to wade through to find an obscure rule that someone - maybe someone no more qualified to be publishing rules than you or me - published, in the hopes of squeezing out every possible perk or bonus or loophole. You knew the rules, or you at least knew that they could easily be found. Game sessions moved along at a brisk pace, and GM's could whip up a ruling on something without fear of contradiction from the corners of a forgotten book. Sigh.Hell, I'm not even really sure what the focus of my complaint is. Something between "I spend too much money on stuff I never use" and "I miss the time when gaming was simpler". Oh, and I'm not pining specifically for Star Frontiers, although it was sweet - it's just the example that my fevered brain seized on after seeing it again last night. I dunno. Maybe I'm coming down with Diaglo Syndrome or something, but I'm liking this d20 arms race less and less.</blockquote>

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