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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HRSegovia" data-source="post: 5647586" data-attributes="member: 99950">Yes, but as every game should be: all rules are optional.  Remember the days of OD&D?  That's when I started.  That's how I grew up.  There was not a rule for everything and the game was still a mystery.  We had to invent ways to handle situations and GM's have to wing-it creating just as much fun as actually playing ("This is how WE do it in our game.  How do you do it in yours?").Today, D&D is almost no different than Magic the Gathering: how can we bend every rule we can find to increase the critical threat range to 2-20?  The rules have become a cage to view the D&D realm rather than a freeform means in interact with it.Somewhere in between is the place where magic is made.  It starts with a common understanding in your group: "All rules are optional.  We are not here to tweak our character to become powerhouses.  This is not a competition.  We are creating personas to experience a world.  Who do YOU want to be tonight?"My greatest advice in this situation, when the rules have become the only means of resolution, is to play OD&D; if just for one long session (preferably until level 4).  -- For the DM, use the following guidelines:- Avoid an epic campaign.  Keep it within the same region with little travel.  "The Cave" or "The Dungeon" should be the climax and not the core.- Focus on story rather than action to give the players an opportunity to love their character and not their abilities.- Creatures and magic should be rare and sometimes feared as myth or witchcraft.  This will keep the horror and fear of the creatures when encountered, the convenience of magic to a minimum, and the mystery of the D&D realm full of wonder to PC's and NPC's alike.- Above all, focus more on the game and less on the rules.  Wing-it when necessary, but for the most part just make a judgement call on success, failure, and allowance rather than breaking the momentum of the story to create a convoluted, unrealistic, or unnecessary rule to handle a mundane or meager task.You, and your players will learn much from the experience.</blockquote>

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