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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5844138" data-attributes="member: 22424">Certainly. But where they go wrong is when the tie complexity to character level.The thing is, a person learns the game only once, but they will (hopefully) play it many times. Chances are that once they've played a while, they won't want their next 1st level character to revert back to "Dwarf Fighter" - they'll want something a little more nuanced than that.Likewise, most people will have a level of complexity that they're happy with, and will want to stay at that level. The last thing that we want is for a person to be quite happily playing a character in a campaign, only to find that he gains a level, the complexity goes up, and now he no longer enjoys that character!A better solution is to have a simple baseline game, starting at a minimal level of complexity, and then rising to a plateau (as low as possible - but it's likely that there will have to be some increase when moving beyond low levels). Then, add modules (for all levels of play) that allow for greater customisation and greater complexity, for those who want them.(Bear in mind that it is really easy to introduce a supplement/module that increases complexity; it is nigh-impossible to introduce one that reduces it. That advocates a very simple core, with modules for those who want them, rather than trying to do the opposite.)</blockquote>