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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6208805" data-attributes="member: 22424">Yes, I would get behind that.The thing that annoyed me about the keyword system wasn't that it didn't prevent abuse, but rather that it was the WotC designers who were abusing it! If they'd stuck with a fixed, manageable list of keywords (probably the one presented in the DMG), it would have been fine. But instead, they had to add a keyword for this, a keyword for that... and the final list (as in the RC) is quite absurd.Any system where some things stack and others don't encourages system mastery, it's just that instead of learning one keyword system and then looking out for tags you have to search through hundreds of items. This actually has the effect of widening the gap between the "optimisers" (who are willing to do that work) and the "casuals" (who aren't)."Everything stacks" works well. "Nothing stacks" works well. And, indeed, your suggestion of "nothing stacks, except for specific exceptions made by the DM" works well. But if the rules are going to specify that some things stack but not other, they really shouldn't be burying that detail in the item descriptions. Well, unless the number of items is going to be small, and is going to remain small.Eh. In theory, that would work. But I'm leery of just assigning everything to modules. I'm inclined to think that a module with either by widely adopted (and so become assumed by the rules going forward, and essentially be a default), or it won't (and so will atrophy and die). In particular, something like that would probably mean that all new items would need two writeups - one for the KISS option, and then another for the "keyword module". Any other presentation either mingles KISS and keyword data (likely causing confusion for KISS people), or puts related data in two different places (as the "keyword" data gets pulled off into a table separate from the main text).(Of course, that does work well if you have electronic tools that can be reconfigured according to the modules people choose to use. And that way, you get the best of both worlds.)</blockquote>

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