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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8253950" data-attributes="member: 3457">One of the design principles of 5e was that it would be evergreen and designed to fit any style of D&D play and that a simple 1e style character could sit at a table with a 4e style character. This came across in the optional rules of the DMG which go to great lengths to demonstrate how to change the game to fit theater of the mind up to tactical play popular in 3 & 4e games and spell point variants etc. I always scratch my head when people act like these “rule modules” (as originally described) have never been published because the optional rules are just that, modules to drop in that adjust 5e’s base rules to fit a different style of play similar to older editions. Early on I think this was more understood by the D&D community because we had yet to receive the influx of players the game now enjoys.The game already supports “grognard” play out of the box, but there has been an uptick because of the new players where these players think THEY tell the DM what can be used and dictate the nature of the game, abandoning all pretense of a cooperative experience or that a DM has the final say on the experience he is trying to impart to players. Rules clearly laid out in the core books as optional rules, like Feats, are expectations rather than an option and most of these rules are PHB based and not the DMG based optional systems.This has created a default style of play for 5e that defines 5e in a very specific way that it’s easy to forget those original design implementations.I had mentioned that MUlticlassing was an optional rule in my group before we started our campaign and two of the players, long time 5e players, didn’t believe me. They had to look it up. Whenever I point out some element that is an optional rule that is a part of the “standard 5e experience” they get surprised to see... it really is optional!Default 5e, rules options filed off, plays closer to 1e or 2e than any edition since. It’s part of why it appealed to so many grognards after 3e and 4e failed to hook em and it was even this default ability to be houseruled and not break that helped to get word out and make the game what it is now.I found this link to be awesome for listing what is an optional rule in the core books.[MEDIA=gist]krmaxwell/23a97192c8ce5073a49b[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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