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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6290502" data-attributes="member: 17106">Nope. Not even close. I've seen games that bring something to the table but need to be monkeyed with (3e, various other d20 offshoots, the Cortex games), games that I wouldn't play but which bring some ideas to the table for other systems, and games that bring nothing to the table and really aren't worth discussing.I can't say that I do. Creating something comprehensive takes a lot of time and energy, and a lot of trial and error, but it's eminently doable if you have the time. I think most semi-intelligent people can at least substantially rewrite an existing game so that it is legitimately much better for their purposes than it was out of the box.Definitely a fundamental challenge. I think it's important to only have rules that serve a clear purpose and cut the rest, which sounds simple but isn't in practice. Certainly all versions of D&D (some more than others) are bogged down by rules that don't serve a purpose.Sounds good.This I don't agree with. Much as I dislike various games' inadequacies, customization is a large part of the process. I think a really well-written game has a lot of the houserules already built in as variants or through open-ended writing, but I don't think there's ever going to be anything that works perfectly right out of the box for everyone. Moreover, houseruling is an important part of the process of learning to be a DM.Okay.Definitely.</blockquote>

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