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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5023766" data-attributes="member: 80487">YMMV, I guess, but really -- not in ruling on the minutia with which the WotC rule-books are preoccupied. The many pages devoted to peculiarities of a particular, notably complex, combat game are simply not relevant. Feats and skill ratings? Ditto. Trivia about climbing free-standing knotted ropes versus un-knotted ropes next to walls, and so on ... just never really made anything like that difference in any other RPG I have ever played.Again, we're dealing with different games. When it's up to the players to choose their path through the big decision-space of a sprawling dungeon, that's a different situation from the DM presenting the next "encounter" on a program.When the expectation is of a challenge that should be hard to beat, one that is likely to remove from play a few 1st-level characters (providing the opportunity to roll up new ones!), with several expeditions in a sitting ... maybe that's by design a different kind of game?I do not recall its being especially hard for interested parties to pick up, although the DM's job was certainly at the high end of the contemporary scale of complexity -- not for game mechanics, but for the scope of the concern (an imaginary "world"). With 3e and 4e, we have gone completely off a scale calibrated to such relative trifles as advanced-game Anzio, even though the "world" is no greater.</blockquote>