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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9040412" data-attributes="member: 5889">We do have to respect that Board Games live in a different space. By their nature, board games are meant to be limited experiences, they prescribe a preset list of actions, with the expectation that the players follow the rules to the letter.Dnd is by its nature designed in the opposite direction. It provides a baseline of rules with the expectation that players will routinely go outside the lines, that they will have situations the rules don't account for. That is in many ways THE reason people Dnd instead of a video or board game.Take Gloomhaven for example, one of the most popular boardgames in recent years (and commonly called the "Dnd of board game"). I have played Gloomhaven, being a board game addict myself. I love the mechanics of the game, I appreciate some of its intricacies, and I think for players that have never played dnd or its equivalent, its a neat "stepping stone" into that world.But personally I would never play Gloomhaven over dnd. When you are used to a more imagination based freeform game for your roleplaying, going to a completely codified constraint game is very.....well.....constraining. The second piece is the nature of tools. Board games have become adapt at providing ways for players to run the rules without "running the rules", using the elegance of the board and various pieces to track a lot of the nuances, so they can get away with certain complexities. Dnd still assumes most players only have some dice, pen, and paper.... and that limits the amount of complexity you can reasonably have in a game and expect it to run efficiently. Now this is an area Dnd could change in....with the advent of electronic tools of all shapes and sizes (many that work well on your phone), perhaps this is an area Dnd could embrace more. By shifting some of the load to electronic tools, you could have much more complex rules that are still fast and efficient due to the "helpers" you have at your disposal.</blockquote>

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