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<blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 1757678" data-attributes="member: 6777">Which is fine, but it's still way beyond what Joe Average wants out of a game to play with the kids on a Friday night.I don't think there's any reason you can't ignore chunks of any ruleset if you want to. I'd also argue that many of the huge swaths of 1e that regularly got ignored made the game even more unbalanced and wacky.I also don't see how this would make 1e any less complex, especially if we're talking about newbies (which, admittedly, the original poster was not). I mean, complex as it is, 3e at least makes some basic sense. 1e, otoh, was pretty dang confusing. I mean, the player's book didn't even really tell you how anything worked.I think it's debatable whether BD&amp;D would even really count as &quot;lite&quot; by current definitions.I dunno. I think that 3e is basically as complex as it needs to be while still appealing to the largest number of gamers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="buzz, post: 1757678, member: 6777"] Which is fine, but it's still way beyond what Joe Average wants out of a game to play with the kids on a Friday night. I don't think there's any reason you can't ignore chunks of any ruleset if you want to. I'd also argue that many of the huge swaths of 1e that regularly got ignored made the game even more unbalanced and wacky. I also don't see how this would make 1e any less complex, especially if we're talking about newbies (which, admittedly, the original poster was not). I mean, complex as it is, 3e at least makes some basic sense. 1e, otoh, was pretty dang confusing. I mean, the player's book didn't even really tell you how anything worked. I think it's debatable whether BD&D would even really count as "lite" by current definitions. I dunno. I think that 3e is basically as complex as it needs to be while still appealing to the largest number of gamers. [/QUOTE]

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