thanson02
Explorer
This brings up a very interesting phenomenon: There is a difference between placing a rule in a core book, a supplement, a thirdparty supplement, a UA article, and a house rule document. When we say, "5E doesn't need more rules," I assume we are mostly talking about the core rules. I mean, nobody can stop rules from appearing in house rules documents, and thirdparty supplements are hard to prevent too; but people don't give those rules as much weight, either. Official rules supplements are a kind of gray area, though.
For example, some people would say, "Just give people* the magic-item-pricing rules they want in a supplement, and I'll just not use that at my table." But other people would say, "No no no, if it's in an official supplement, players will expect it to be available as an option, and it will worm its way into all our games."
Personally, I feel that when people ask for more rules to exist in an official form (and not in a thirdparty supplement or UA article), it is precisely because they WANT those rules to become de-facto "core" rules -- which is precisely the thing that leads to rules bloat.[/SIZE]
I think there's another factor involved in here as well. There's a difference between more rules and expansions on the rules already. A lot of the stuff in the DMG provides in nice baseline framework to add additional mechanics to help manage player interactions with the storyline. I know other than wanting more player options, such as Psionics or the artificer class, there's been a request at least from players I've known to have some of these additional rulesets flushed out.
A good example of this was Out of the Abyss. You have the basic Madness rules in the DMG which you can use at your own leisure, but the fact that it was a focus and that adventure and its relations to the Demonic hordes invading the Underdark really flushed out what you can do with that particular mechanic. I found that really enjoyable with that module and I would like to see Wizards of the Coast continue to do that as they release more Adventures.
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