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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9431583" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I am going to briefly interject. Because I've written so ... many ... words on this already. How many words? Well, here are the first five essays that came to mind![URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-ds-evolution-rulings-rules-and-system-matters.682585/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/breakin-the-law-thoughts-on-rules-in-5e.683442/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/context-switching-paralysis-or-why-we-will-always-have-the-thief-debate.691003/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/fkr-how-fewer-rules-can-make-d-d-better.697795/[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.enworld.org/threads/rules-rulings-and-second-order-design-d-d-and-ad-d-examined.698134/[/URL]I will reiterate that the issue of how many rules to have is something that we see going back to the beginning of the hobby. I would add that that IME the following two things are both true-The more narrowly tailored the game, the easier it is to have it be either rules lite, or to have the rules encompass the entirety of the game.That's a weird statement to unpack, so I'll be more specific. Games that have a very narrow focus can have a bespoke rules set that encompasses all of what is going to happen. For example, BiTD is not super crunchy, but because it is limited in scope (setting, genre, possibilities within the game), it is relatively simply to design rules that should deal with everything that goes on. In a similar vein, a super-specific rules lite game (such as Disco Party Athletes, which I designed for Iron DM and posted before) is also easy, because it is constrained in the the agreed upon-fiction.It's the games that really allow you to do a lot - the D&amp;D style games - where we see more of this conflict. If you're only limited to your imagination, it becomes harder to make rules for everything. You can make a lot of rules in an area to channel activity toward it (combat!), but you can't make rules for all the possible interactions you will have with the fiction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9431583, member: 7023840"] I am going to briefly interject. Because I've written so ... many ... words on this already. How many words? Well, here are the first five essays that came to mind! [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-ds-evolution-rulings-rules-and-system-matters.682585/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/breakin-the-law-thoughts-on-rules-in-5e.683442/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/context-switching-paralysis-or-why-we-will-always-have-the-thief-debate.691003/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/fkr-how-fewer-rules-can-make-d-d-better.697795/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/rules-rulings-and-second-order-design-d-d-and-ad-d-examined.698134/[/URL] I will reiterate that the issue of how many rules to have is something that we see going back to the beginning of the hobby. I would add that that IME the following two things are both true- [I]The more narrowly tailored the game, the easier it is to have it be either rules lite, or to have the rules encompass the entirety of the game.[/I] That's a weird statement to unpack, so I'll be more specific. Games that have a very narrow focus can have a bespoke rules set that encompasses all of what is going to happen. For example, BiTD is not super crunchy, but because it is limited in scope (setting, genre, possibilities within the game), it is relatively simply to design rules that should deal with everything that goes on. In a similar vein, a super-specific rules lite game (such as Disco Party Athletes, which I designed for Iron DM and posted before) is also easy, because it is constrained in the the agreed upon-fiction. It's the games that really allow you to do a lot - the D&D style games - where we see more of this conflict. If you're only limited to your imagination, it becomes harder to make rules for everything. You can make a lot of rules in an area to channel activity toward it (combat!), but you can't make rules for all the possible interactions you will have with the fiction. [/QUOTE]

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