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<blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 1849787" data-attributes="member: 4826">All your full stops gravitated to the bottom of your post.&nbsp;Anyway, thinking of the core books as manuals is quite right. After all, one of them is the MM. By 'taking out the fantasy', I assume you are referring to the 'f' word that has led to so much hunger around here.&nbsp;The 3e books have to find a difficult balance. On the one tentacle, you want to inspire the reader to play but, on one of the others, you want to explain as clearly as possible how to play.&nbsp;WotC doesn't get as much acknowledgement of its success, as I think it deserves. I don't have my books to hand but I remember a passage (probably in the PHB) about the times when your character might have to deal with a heavy load, such as carrying a sack of treasure or a fallen comrade. The evocative text is more subtle but it's still there. Sure, the tone has changed. Gone, dear reader, are the days when, in order to ensure accurate interpretation of AD&amp;D for instance, the player and DM would have to wade through tortuously long sentences assembled in a nightmarish pastiche of an archaic idiom.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ranes, post: 1849787, member: 4826"] All your full stops gravitated to the bottom of your post. Anyway, thinking of the core books as manuals is quite right. After all, one of them is the MM. By 'taking out the fantasy', I assume you are referring to the 'f' word that has led to so much hunger around here. The 3e books have to find a difficult balance. On the one tentacle, you want to inspire the reader to play but, on one of the others, you want to explain as clearly as possible how to play. WotC doesn't get as much acknowledgement of its success, as I think it deserves. I don't have my books to hand but I remember a passage (probably in the PHB) about the times when your character might have to deal with a heavy load, such as carrying a sack of treasure or a fallen comrade. The evocative text is more subtle but it's still there. Sure, the tone has changed. Gone, dear reader, are the days when, in order to ensure accurate interpretation of AD&D for instance, the player and DM would have to wade through tortuously long sentences assembled in a nightmarish pastiche of an archaic idiom. [/QUOTE]

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