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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4020762" data-attributes="member: 710">Do you let yourself be constrained by flavor and fluff written in source books? I think both are hard, but different kinds of hards. For balancing, you need a good grasp of game design concepts, possibly a good sense of math and things.For world design, you need to have a lot of creativity. For both things, to make a consistent system or world, you need to keep a lot of things in mind. "Oops, I forget to make rules for what happens if someone picks up the greatsword of a giant... Oops, I forgot the delta where the river of this city is supposed to end!"In either case, both takes a lot of time. And that didn't account the time you need to create an actual adventure or describing the specific locale the PCs are in.Good rules and some fluff helps people that are short on time or experience (or merely competence?) to get a sensible starting point. Anyone that has the time and the experience throws everything away he doesn't need/like.</blockquote>