D&D 5E (2014) How crunchy is D&D 5E

[Wolfram stout]

I rated it a 5 as an average. Character Generation (to me) is on the heavy side, once you are playing the game, it becomes much lighter.

 

[Stormonu]

1 - TWERPS (The World's Easiest Role-Playing System)
2 - Fiasco
3 - Fate, Aliens, Tales from the Loop
4 - Savage Worlds, WEG Star Wars, World of Darkness
5 - 5E D&D
6 - 1E/2E D&D
7 - 3E/PF
8 - Rifts
9 - GURPS (with all options on)
10 - Rolemaster, PF2

 

[Lidgar]

Medium-ish (5-6). It kind of depends on the table and how strictly they follow RAW, but RAW, its 5-7.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It's a Taco Bell Gordita: a soft outside with the crunch inside. Or to put it otherwise, it's got crunch, but crunch padded by sticking to the same d20 resolution mechanic in 90% of the cases. A new player can sit down, make their character, and pretty much be good to go just by knowing "roll a d20 and get equal to or over the target number" at the start.

 

[schneeland]

I voted 6, mainly because I can think of a lot of systems that are even more complicated, and many things are really complex, but just annoying to remember. And as others already noted, the complexity ends up mostly on the combat and magic side, while the generic task resolution system is actually quite simple.

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

I'm going to go with "Not crunchy enough", i.e. maybe about 5.

 

[Charlaquin]

As D&D goes, 5e is on the light side, but as RPGs go, D&D is on the heavy side, so I’d say it averages out to rules medium. 5e also has some wiggle room in terms of how rules-heavy you want to play it, with lots of optional rules proving more crunchiness to those who want it. So maybe the best description would be a 5 that can scale up to a 6 with the use of optional rules. I voted for 6.

 

[Oofta]

With rulings over rules, I can see that it varies from table to table. I put it at medium because of that - I can certainly see certain tables being sticklers for rules which might make it a bit higher but other tables are going to take more of a laid back approach.

 

[Vaalingrade]

4.

5 if 'ask your DM' is a rule.

Not enough for me at any rate. I like a nice 7 minimum as 'crunch' generally means player-facing options.

 

[Vince_Snetterton]

Not rules heavy enough. The rules should preclude players deciding that Rule of Cool or how their char "feels" is more important than the actual game.