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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9088165" data-attributes="member: 29398">And you then have to deal with the players' complaints that you've made the game harder.Completely disagree.  Removing things is usually dirt simple, even more so in a system built of modular subsystems.  Don't want the complexity of weapon-vs-armour-type in 1e?  Drop it.  Poof, it's gone.  Took me less than five seconds.Don't want Inspiration in 5e?  Drop it.  Poof, it's gone.  That was another less-than-five seconds.Adding things means you have to think them up and design them first, which from experience I can attest takes immensely more effort and time.Making a game generally easier often just means removing challenge types or fail states.  1e D&D can be made much easier in a heartbeat by removing level drain, removing the rule that items have to save if you fail vs AoE damage, and excising some player-side annoyances e.g. Rust Monsters.  That'd take me maybe fifteen seconds, were I of a mind to do it.But if those things aren't there to begin with, I'm not likely to think them up for myself in order to add them in.Because it's a zero-to-hero game.A 1st-level character in 5e is pretty powerful compared to a commoner, though (thankfully!) nowhere near as bad as was a 1st-level character in 4e.  In that way, you're already starting as something considerably better than an "incompetent rube".</blockquote>