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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5028229" data-attributes="member: 28487">While I like the complexity of 4e (I did feel 3e was a little too much) the current complexity of D&D kinda reminds me of wargaming (hex) in the eighties when the monster game was in vogue and the rules were quite substancial and fiddly. Now adays I have played games with the card driven mechanics on the same theme as the older games and the game play is pretty satisfying and complex with a lot less rules easier to pick up and the total playtime a fraction of the older games.One of the things about these games is that alot of the rules are in the cards and you pick it up as you play.So could D&D be distilled into a basic game that you could explain in about five or six pages of rules and play your way to the current first level with the complexity accumulating as you go along and the total amount of complexity being determined by the DM or the DM+players?</blockquote>