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Message: <blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 9765228" data-attributes="member: 7027139">I think there are "genres" to complexity.The kind of complexity that we often imagine when talking about, well, complexity is the book-keepy annoying kind of one. Many people don't like it — I'm among them.If anything, my proposal can be a simplification — now, "I don't want to read the rules, give me a simple class" kind of people can skip on reading or thinking about different weapon types. "Uhhhh is a longsword better than a shortsword? What should I pick? What? Feats? Girlie I'm just here to smack people with a stick, give me something simple!" (pretty much a verbatim thing I've said myself) is excised entirely: you only read one weapon at a time. You don't have a million options, you only have one, maybe two.You inflict a critical hit so strong your sword itself snaps from the impact! You grab another weapon and it's.... [roll on a weapon table] a spear! GM hands you a piece of paper that says:And you get to do something new without being overloaded with complexity. You get to protect people for a while, then deliver another crit (and break your spear), roll, say, a pile of daggers (and, idk, get to do a lot of attacks? one attack, one attack from Nick property, bonus action attack for two-weapon fighting? Something like that?)So a "smack people with a stick" player gets to play around with different (yet still simple) playstyles without delving deep into the rules and reading different feats and whatnot.</blockquote>

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