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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 5637679" data-attributes="member: 11760">That's why I qualified it with &quot;pretty.&quot; The only reason to prefer some of the outliers, like &quot;rolling high is better, except sometimes when it's not&quot; is nostalgia. Streamline the core a bit and (almost) everything else works off that -- and the &quot;(almost) everything else&quot; gets put into a rules module that can be bolted on, just like horror rules or social combat rules.I don't know. I'm not advocating it nor am I someone playing BD&amp;D. I'm just trying to work from what we know toward where they seem to be going.But as much as the roll-your-own aesthetic is prominent in tabletop roleplaying, a well-made adventure module is a popular, popular thing (it's the cornerstone of the Paizo Empire, for instance). If 5E had a core that everyone could work off of -- including Paizo, Frog God/Necromancer, Goodman, etc. -- and it would work for every edition without at-home conversions, I think there'd be a lot of people happy to pull out their wallets for both the new core book(s) and those adventures.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 5637679, member: 11760"] That's why I qualified it with "pretty." The only reason to prefer some of the outliers, like "rolling high is better, except sometimes when it's not" is nostalgia. Streamline the core a bit and (almost) everything else works off that -- and the "(almost) everything else" gets put into a rules module that can be bolted on, just like horror rules or social combat rules. I don't know. I'm not advocating it nor am I someone playing BD&D. I'm just trying to work from what we know toward where they seem to be going. But as much as the roll-your-own aesthetic is prominent in tabletop roleplaying, a well-made adventure module is a popular, popular thing (it's the cornerstone of the Paizo Empire, for instance). If 5E had a core that everyone could work off of -- including Paizo, Frog God/Necromancer, Goodman, etc. -- and it would work for every edition without at-home conversions, I think there'd be a lot of people happy to pull out their wallets for both the new core book(s) and those adventures. [/QUOTE]

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