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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 6544646" data-attributes="member: 467"><p>It depends on whether the rules in question serve the overall design goals of the game, which crunchy item creation and economy rules apparently do not for 5E. You would not expect core 5E to include detailed rules regarding sanitation and disease transmission because 5E is not a game about gritty low fantasy. You might expect an article to appear in Dragon (if we had Dragon) or a supplement from a third party publisher (if we had those either). The things you include and exclude from the core rules, as well as those things you note as optional, define the tone and intent of the game. Despite some poor arguments to the contrary over the years, some even by designers, D&D is not and never has been a universal fantasy game engine. There is an overarching "D&D fantasy" genre and each edition has modified that genre through focusing on some things over others. 5 E is not the highly detailed crunchy game 3.x was (or is, including Pathfinder) and it seems strange to demand it be that game when those rules are still out there in perpetuity.</p></blockquote><p></p>