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<blockquote data-quote="drjones" data-source="post: 4175103" data-attributes="member: 62944">I think one problem is that DnD has always been written and designed by nerds.&nbsp; Nerds want things to work in a logical manner.&nbsp; That someone was kidnapped to the land of the faeries is not enough.&nbsp; We want to know why it happened, how often it can happen, is there a saving throw etc. etc. while people with a less engineering based point of view just say 'its magic' and thats it.So I think the OP is correct in 4es approach.&nbsp; I like fantasy and sci fi that makes sense and looks like the logical clockwork world we live in but twisted up.&nbsp; But adding the level of codified detail to the game to make such a world does not add much but page count.Besides there is no evidence that 'The Ecology of the Quickling' type pieces will not be provided with tons of obsessively crossrefernced fluff.&nbsp; All we know is that they are trying to make the MM book more concise and the keyhole view we have of parts of a few mm entries.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drjones, post: 4175103, member: 62944"] I think one problem is that DnD has always been written and designed by nerds. Nerds want things to work in a logical manner. That someone was kidnapped to the land of the faeries is not enough. We want to know why it happened, how often it can happen, is there a saving throw etc. etc. while people with a less engineering based point of view just say 'its magic' and thats it. So I think the OP is correct in 4es approach. I like fantasy and sci fi that makes sense and looks like the logical clockwork world we live in but twisted up. But adding the level of codified detail to the game to make such a world does not add much but page count. Besides there is no evidence that 'The Ecology of the Quickling' type pieces will not be provided with tons of obsessively crossrefernced fluff. All we know is that they are trying to make the MM book more concise and the keyhole view we have of parts of a few mm entries. [/QUOTE]

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