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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 250291" data-attributes="member: 1106">Rules is rules.  You can't run a D&D game off of rules alone - but you are correct, the game needs them.See post above.More crunchy bits are optional, and arguably superfluous to game quality once you reach a certain critical mass, IMO.  Of course, some of us can never get enough.  As with the Epic Rules, you still need to knit a game out of them - and that's the preparation I'm referring to that is not being aided with much.Again, rules is rules.  Yes, they deserve to exist - and would be missed by some of us in their absence - but they're not the kind of preparation timesaving I'm referring to, and are easily ignored as superfluous to your levels 1-20, prime material based, gods-stay-in-the-sky campaign which most of us seem to end up running anyway...Yes.  This is the kind of thing I'm referring to that can be directly applied to make a game.  It's not rules or setting material - it's something that saves you preparation of the actual game itself.Off the shelf, non-megadungeon, non-railroad campaigns, not setting material or more rules.I somehow doubt your "sorry" is sincere, given the facetiousness of the second part of your sentence.  I didn't state that they're likely to change their publishing behaviour until gamers change their buying behaviour - so, as you say, game set match to you options folk. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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