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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8828582" data-attributes="member: 3457">The basic game is a skeleton, it can be downloaded off the WOTC website for free and is complete. Outside of those rules the rest of them in the PHB and DMG are considered and called out as optional rules by WOTC so yes the evidence is very… evident. The optional rules are ways of doing things that aren’t the only way you can do them. Flanking is one called out as “broken” in the “tired of fixing your broken game” videos and blogs that is an optional rule that you don’t have to use and can house rule very easily to be less swingy. Critical hits are another optional rule that are called out as broken that can, again, be house ruled to your liking. That’s what is meant by a skeleton. If you go back and look at the design goals and comments from the designers they accomplished what they set out to do which was to provide a strong base to play with and then house rule and make your own game because that was the preferred playstyle according to feedback in surveys and playtests. So the game supports play styles from very basic, beer and pretzels, very few bells and whistles pick up the dice and play Basic D&D in the pdf below to adding various options to play a more advanced style akin to 1e or 2e up to the very tactically oriented 4e style minis with a grid supported with optional rules in the DMG, which is a toolkit to modify the game how you like and/or provide advice on ways to adjust the game to play to your style following the examples in the DMG. So yes, it’s a skeleton and obviously so if you pay attention to the call outs about what’s optional in the core books (which includes races for example).The basic rulebook is here: <a href="https://dnd.wizards.com/what-is-dnd/basic-rules" target="_blank">Basic D&D Rules | Dungeons & Dragons</a>These are for the most part, devoid of 99% of the optional rules you find in the core books, being the bare minimum needed to run a classic D&D style adventure campaign.</blockquote>

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