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<blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9782851" data-attributes="member: 7044462">5e Middle Earth is great. My brother bought books and since then, it's my go to for more grounded, low fantasy games. It does GoT or Vikings style game pretty well i may add. Brancolonia is on this years Christmas wish list ( already hinted in not so subtle way to wife ). But yes, D&amp;D is toolkit. Has been for ever, moment you introduce house rules, you are using D&amp;D as a framework to build on. That's one of it's strengths. It's not perfect toolkit, but it gets job done. Only problem is, it needs better guidelines and support for new players on how to best use that toolkit to curate game experience they want. Back to toolkit analogy. Yes, it can do lot of stuff with tweaking while still retaining that familiarity players are accustomed to. Same. I encourage my players to go wild. Use crazy combos that sound fun without worry about &quot;efficiency&quot; or &quot;synergy&quot;. Rule of cool all the way. And even if they find fun in creating uberfleischmaschinen, who cares, i just let them have it and make minced meat of monsters. Or if they go full on quirky but &quot;combat inefficient&quot;, also cool, i can shift game away from combat (and for the most part i do that anyway).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GrimCo, post: 9782851, member: 7044462"] 5e Middle Earth is great. My brother bought books and since then, it's my go to for more grounded, low fantasy games. It does GoT or Vikings style game pretty well i may add. Brancolonia is on this years Christmas wish list ( already hinted in not so subtle way to wife ). But yes, D&D is toolkit. Has been for ever, moment you introduce house rules, you are using D&D as a framework to build on. That's one of it's strengths. It's not perfect toolkit, but it gets job done. Only problem is, it needs better guidelines and support for new players on how to best use that toolkit to curate game experience they want. Back to toolkit analogy. Yes, it can do lot of stuff with tweaking while still retaining that familiarity players are accustomed to. Same. I encourage my players to go wild. Use crazy combos that sound fun without worry about "efficiency" or "synergy". Rule of cool all the way. And even if they find fun in creating uberfleischmaschinen, who cares, i just let them have it and make minced meat of monsters. Or if they go full on quirky but "combat inefficient", also cool, i can shift game away from combat (and for the most part i do that anyway). [/QUOTE]

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