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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7524627" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I think I get what you are saying, and I think I agree in that regard; 5e does seem to have a lot of wording that ties things together. I guess the way I see 5's &quot;modularity&quot; is more in how easy it is to change/ignore/modify something and not have that change be likely to completely derail an entire aspect of the rules (e.g. &quot;missile combat&quot; or &quot;movement&quot; or something). There will be a sort of 'ripple effect' that will bounce around a couple of the areas that the 'specific wording ties into', but nothing so expansive as to really muck things up. If something is changed, a handful of things that 'tie into' that thing you changed will need to be adjusted...but owing to 5e's bounded accuracy baseline, and their very wise move to remove &quot;magical expectations&quot; for levels, those changes someone would need to make are relatively straightforward and painless. Usually a simple matter of just slapping on a Condition, maybe a specific DC check, or even just applying an Adv/Disad roll.5e isn't as &quot;open ended&quot; as 1e, but it's far better than 3.x/PF/4e is....imnsho. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 7524627, member: 45197"] Hiya! I think I get what you are saying, and I think I agree in that regard; 5e does seem to have a lot of wording that ties things together. I guess the way I see 5's "modularity" is more in how easy it is to change/ignore/modify something and not have that change be likely to completely derail an entire aspect of the rules (e.g. "missile combat" or "movement" or something). There will be a sort of 'ripple effect' that will bounce around a couple of the areas that the 'specific wording ties into', but nothing so expansive as to really muck things up. If something is changed, a handful of things that 'tie into' that thing you changed will need to be adjusted...but owing to 5e's bounded accuracy baseline, and their very wise move to remove "magical expectations" for levels, those changes someone would need to make are relatively straightforward and painless. Usually a simple matter of just slapping on a Condition, maybe a specific DC check, or even just applying an Adv/Disad roll. 5e isn't as "open ended" as 1e, but it's far better than 3.x/PF/4e is....imnsho. :) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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