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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8408834" data-attributes="member: 7032025"><p>I'm not sure how you count this, but although 3e is certainly rules heavy, 4e is not that much actually (those that exist are fairly strict and, to my opinion, restrictive, but there are not that many of them), BECMI is certainly rules light compared to any modern edition, and as for AD&D, it's a more complex thing, but the core rules are not that complicated. It's just that there are lots of tables rather than simple rules because it was the lay of the land back them, and that the rules are not unified under simple principles, but if you discount all the optional rules in the DMG that very few people played anyway, it's not a complicated game. It is complex in apparence because it's badly organised, for sure, and the options are extremely involved and badly explained (Initiative and segments, weapons vs. AC, etc.), but not that complex to run.</p></blockquote><p></p>