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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 9345361" data-attributes="member: 6685730">It can.  The 5RD neatly cuts 1000 pages down to, um, 403 pages.I might like "long form" games if I were a teenager with nothing better to do than learn/memorize that much material.  But as a non-teenager GM, I'm not about to memorize hundreds of pages of info, and it's hard to imagine a fantasy world while flipping through pages of real world books.I can see that.  The 5RD has a lot of fat to trim.  Some of the already trimmed fat was classes and subclasses that I see D&D players craving, so it sounds like a difficult project.I can tell you that that doesn't have to be the case.  Rules-light can also be immersive play, creative PC actions, and customization.  But yeah, probably less pleasure reading.</blockquote>