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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 3574039" data-attributes="member: 1645">The point <a href="http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=62" target="_blank">Mearls</a> made was not that the rules were clear or easy to use, but that you immediately knew what to do with them -- draw a map, fill the rooms with monsters and treasure, and lead the party through the dungeon so they could kill things and take their stuff.It's easy to play -- not in a mechanical sense, but in the larger sense that you don't stare at the book thinking "cool!" but not knowing how to make it all happen.It obviously hasn't been a disaster, but I think it could do much better by making it as easy as possible to dip one's toes in the game.Hmm...perhaps D&D needs to include Robert E. Howard's "Tower of the Elephant" to set the tone...</blockquote>