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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irlo" data-source="post: 9184145" data-attributes="member: 7028372">The better analogy might be that the D&D rules are like a cookbook, not meal at a restaurant. If you follow a recipe and find the results too garlicky, you can use less garlic. It's still valuable to have and follow a cookbook, but it's also pretty easy to make little changes to the recipes to get results you prefer. My first 5e campaign I ran by the book. By the end, I had a pretty good idea what I wanted to change. The barrier to implementing the changes was player buy-in. They didn't care much about the things that had grown to annoy me, and it was more important to them to have easy access to the rules on D&D Beyond and in their books without tracking all my homebrewed alterations.</blockquote>