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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7012710" data-attributes="member: 996">That's just not the kind of system D&amp;D is.&nbsp; You can't just add fluff to D&amp;D, you want new fluff, pretty soon you need new crunch to support it.&nbsp; It's just the nature of the system, no mechanic's entirely generic.&nbsp; There are such systems - like Hero - of course.&nbsp; It's cycle is just what you describe.&nbsp; They put out a core rulebook, then supplements that add fluff - genre stuff, mostly - and little or no crunch.&nbsp; Because the crunch is all generic mechanics, it's just a matter of mapping existing mechanics to new fluff.&nbsp; Wasn't the RC just printed towards the end of the 'two-prong approach' though?&nbsp; In that sense you can take up any ed of D&amp;D after the end of it's run, and it'll be crunch-stable.&nbsp; So, if 5e had been designed with adding more crunch in mind, it could have kept sub-classes fairly setting-generic, and used PrCs for more setting-specific things with such identies, like Oath of the Crown or PDK.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7012710, member: 996"] That's just not the kind of system D&D is. You can't just add fluff to D&D, you want new fluff, pretty soon you need new crunch to support it. It's just the nature of the system, no mechanic's entirely generic. There are such systems - like Hero - of course. It's cycle is just what you describe. They put out a core rulebook, then supplements that add fluff - genre stuff, mostly - and little or no crunch. Because the crunch is all generic mechanics, it's just a matter of mapping existing mechanics to new fluff. Wasn't the RC just printed towards the [i]end[/i] of the 'two-prong approach' though? In that sense you can take up any ed of D&D after the end of it's run, and it'll be crunch-stable. So, if 5e had been designed with adding more crunch in mind, it could have kept sub-classes fairly setting-generic, and used PrCs for more setting-specific things with such identies, like Oath of the Crown or PDK. [/QUOTE]

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