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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4977468" data-attributes="member: 80487">Janx, not everyone happens to share your fixation on &quot;feats&quot;. Can you see how it goes with spending more time and energy on the resolution of a fight? That can be a circular process: taking longer demands more interesting number-crunching, which in turn requires more time, so fights get boring, so it takes more rules to &quot;inject excitement&quot; ...Old D&amp;D depends primarily on real-world tactics, which may not interest you but suits other folks well enough. In addition, you can try any fancy stratagem you like, without needing a &quot;feat&quot;; you're not limited to options someone else has defined.To some people, the sub-game of &quot;builds&quot; and the sub-game of &quot;combat moves&quot; are just obstacles on the way to the game of adventure. To them, character is not about how many mechanical bonus you've written down on a piece of paper but about what you do in play.More time and energy spent on accounting means less spent on what's really worth talking about, the stuff of tales to tell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 4977468, member: 80487"] Janx, not everyone happens to share your fixation on "feats". Can you see how it goes with spending more time and energy on the resolution of a fight? That can be a circular process: taking longer demands more interesting number-crunching, which in turn requires more time, so fights get boring, so it takes more rules to "inject excitement" ... Old D&D depends primarily on real-world tactics, which may not interest you but suits other folks well enough. In addition, you can try any fancy stratagem you like, without needing a "feat"; you're not limited to options someone else has defined. To some people, the sub-game of "builds" and the sub-game of "combat moves" are just obstacles on the way to the game of [I]adventure[/I]. To them, character is not about how many mechanical bonus you've written down on a piece of paper but about what you [I]do[/I] in play. More time and energy spent on accounting means less spent on what's really worth talking about, the stuff of tales to tell. [/QUOTE]

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