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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8276672" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Honestly, 5e overwhelmed me & still does. I was just smart enough to learn how to play 3e. Then I skipped 4e.Yet I picked up 5e. Because I wanted to learn how to play, so that I could write DMs Guild stuff for my favorite settings.And me and a buddy did play. And we did learn it. We played quite a lot. We had a good deal of fun.But also tremendous frustrations. After a year of weekly play, taking turns as DM, it still overwhelmed me.We'd argue about the rules. My head would spin at all the details.And so we started testing various simpler systems (BX, Whitebox, Heroes & Monsters)Also fun, but some counter-intuitive wonky bits.After a failed, frustrating time with trying to run Palace of the Silver Princess with BX rules, I'd had enough.So I designed my own D&D, which was basically a freeform LARP, played outside.Me and a couple buddies would play through entire modules in freeform LARP style, such as the Keep on the Borderlands, Elwyn's Sanctuary, and Palace of the Silver Princess.It was storytelling with essentially no mechanics. Except I'd have the player draw a card as an approximate guide to say how well they did in that round. (No one could die.) If I wanted to get on with it, I'd just have them draw one card for the whole scene. And then we'd co-describe how it went. While acting it out.We immersed ourselves in these these classic stories, while skipping the rules. I love the D&D Multiverse and classic adventures. Yet I don't need to get a headache and stress out about mastering the rules. I'm just not that smart.It was a lot of fun. And a huge relief.From that experience, I'm publishing a very simple RPG, called Twelvefold Adventure System. I have placeholder page at DriveThruRPG, but it's not quite online yet.I'm continually amazed when I see all sorts of people, from all walks of life, playing 5E online. I'm like: "Wow, people are so smart!"I still haven't written anything for DMs Guild yet, so my mission failed in that regard.</blockquote>

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