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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5797072" data-attributes="member: 2011">Agreed. Options are good if they are worthwhile options. 4E could drop a good 75% of its items, feats, and powers and it would make the game a lot better. There are just so many crap options or specialized options that it eventually made 4E the bloatware of the D&amp;D franchise.Do we really need 43 races, 44 classes (75 if you count hybrids and 974 if you consider every possible hybrid combo), 3200 feats, 3500 magic items, 4800 creatures, and 8800 powers? At a minute per entry and 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, it would take someone two months to read all of this stuff and even then, only a few people in the world are talented enough to absorb it all. It's nearly impossible for a DM to know which game elements to limit his game to without just doing some sort of blanket limitation, or limiting things when they come up, or just throwing up his hands and saying &quot;what the hell&quot;.Yes, WotC has to sell material, but just like bloatware bogged down 3E and 4E, it will bog down 5E unless they find a better sales model.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5797072, member: 2011"] Agreed. Options are good if they are worthwhile options. 4E could drop a good 75% of its items, feats, and powers and it would make the game a lot better. There are just so many crap options or specialized options that it eventually made 4E the bloatware of the D&D franchise. Do we really need 43 races, 44 classes (75 if you count hybrids and 974 if you consider every possible hybrid combo), 3200 feats, 3500 magic items, 4800 creatures, and 8800 powers? At a minute per entry and 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, it would take someone two months to read all of this stuff and even then, only a few people in the world are talented enough to absorb it all. It's nearly impossible for a DM to know which game elements to limit his game to without just doing some sort of blanket limitation, or limiting things when they come up, or just throwing up his hands and saying "what the hell". Yes, WotC has to sell material, but just like bloatware bogged down 3E and 4E, it will bog down 5E unless they find a better sales model. [/QUOTE]

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