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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 999830" data-attributes="member: 9045">*chuckles*This is so basic it continues to astound me that noone seems to take it into consideration.  We're ALL (everyone doing business at least) here to make money.  The question is if we do it honorably or not.  Many of us do, but I don't feel that WotC has made me feel that they are doing so honorably for quite a while.  I'd say probably since being bought by Hasbro, sadly.The innate problems with anything to which the answer is "Make it!" or "House-rule it!" is pretty simple.  It's a matter of everyone playing (basically) the same game.  And I think that's extremely important.  If we're all playing D&D, the gamerules should be done well enough that we're all playing mostly the same game.  House rules are good, and I'd never want to see them go away.  But they shouldn't be needed to 'fix' the game, only alter it to taste.  If the gamerules are such that most people feel the need to make house rules to "fix" thew game itself (not just tailor it), then we cease being able to talk amongst ourselves with the same frames of reference.  And that's so sad.Not that I disagree with your point.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />See above.  I agree with Monte on the weapon size issue though.  A little common sense goes a long way.  It's not beyond me to figure that halflings are smaller than humans, and thus a human longsword is pretty friggin big for a halfling.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/B/This is an option, yes.  And it's likely the only real option one has.  But again, it goes back to my point above.  Will I eventually buy the books?  I hope so, if only so I'm familiar with the current state of the official rules, and can understand what people are talking about.  It's like d20 Modern.  Don't have it, don't know the rules.  And I feel like an idiot every time d20 Modern comes up, and I'm completely lost in the conversation.  If I were in that position with D&D itself...  not a fun thought.  So in effect, yes they ARE making us switch.  We are not forced to buy the books (and we CAN go by the SRD alone, true), but it's a matter of everyone being on the same page, even if some of us change a few words in our copy.</blockquote>

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