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<blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4156580" data-attributes="member: 1211">If your choice is between 10 tools that can handle 90% of all situations or 50 tools that can handle 100% of all situations, I go with 10 tools. To take the analogy further, moving around all the 40 extra tools is more cumbersome than what you may get from them.To move back to RPG books: If you have a book that is 300 pages long, you can use 100 pages for rules and 200 pages for fluff and powers, the 100 pages of rules covering 90% of all situations. You could also have 200 pages of rules that covers 99% of all situations, with 100 pages for fluff and powers. I consider that a waste of space and it puts a workload on me, as a DM, to come up with powers that otherwise could be described.Since no rules, no matter how big, can cover every situation that comes up, you need the frameworks for making on the spot rulings anyway, no matter how detailed the rules are. So in both my examples, you need to dedicate pages for improvised rules. In that case, I'm OK with more corner cases since it frees up pages for interesting applications of the rules from the ones who made them, since they are better at it than almost everyone else anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="med stud, post: 4156580, member: 1211"] If your choice is between 10 tools that can handle 90% of all situations or 50 tools that can handle 100% of all situations, I go with 10 tools. To take the analogy further, moving around all the 40 extra tools is more cumbersome than what you may get from them. To move back to RPG books: If you have a book that is 300 pages long, you can use 100 pages for rules and 200 pages for fluff and powers, the 100 pages of rules covering 90% of all situations. You could also have 200 pages of rules that covers 99% of all situations, with 100 pages for fluff and powers. I consider that a waste of space and it puts a workload on me, as a DM, to come up with powers that otherwise could be described. Since no rules, no matter how big, can cover every situation that comes up, you need the frameworks for making on the spot rulings anyway, no matter how detailed the rules are. So in both my examples, you need to dedicate pages for improvised rules. In that case, I'm OK with more corner cases since it frees up pages for interesting applications of the rules from the ones who made them, since they are better at it than almost everyone else anyway. [/QUOTE]

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