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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jrowland" data-source="post: 6161856" data-attributes="member: 94389">WotC could hand you a bare sheet of paper and say here is D&D. Sounds ridiculous, but you have to have something right? Bare sheets of paper are not a game. Thus, the default is actual rules. That is why people say things like "then don't use that rule!". Having it there has to be a default. Blank sheets of paper are no fun.For every "game resolution situation" we expect the game to point to some "game resolution mechanic". In many ways, 4E was rules-light roleplay. I am an old school grognard, so I was fine with a combat-crunchy system, because I don't need rules for roleplay. Others like a crunchier roleplay experience, and most of them shied away from 4E. DDNext is trying, I think, to split the difference. Rules light roleplay (Simple skill system + Inspiration) that can be simplified to away to nothing (4E style), left alone, or expanded via modules and advanced rules (3E style). That's a tall order, and I am sure you won't be happy. I probably won't either. But if you are engaged in a forum during a development phase of the game, I am willing to bed tinkering with the game is a real option for anyone reading this, even if tinkering is dropping it entirely.</blockquote>