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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1158294" data-attributes="member: 158">Let me discuss this point, because of all the comments here, it is the most interesting to me. I certainly hope this is not their intention, because it is a holy grail they will never achieve. Reduce the amount of DM adjudication needed, I can handle. Eliminating it completely would be a pipe dream of the highest order. In a set of rules this complex, there will always be flaws, especially due to the introduction of new material necessary for increasing purchase interest. We will never have D&D chess, because the evolution of rules necessitates "breach and cure" to the ruleset.Furthermore, the DM-as storyteller will always be an element. You cannot remove Tolkein from The Hobbit, just as you cannot remove Bilbo Baggins. But then, I'm certainly hoping no one is suggesting that, either.The changes to 3.5 I am ambivalent on. I woul play in one version just as readily as another; in fact, many of the changes mentioned (the spell rearrangement, Damage Reduction, the Paladin Summon Mount, the weapon sizes) I actively like and support. But elimination of DM adjudication from the core rules is not distasteful - just an absurd premise, to me.</blockquote>