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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9606928" data-attributes="member: 15700">This is gonna sound sarcastic or tongue in cheek, but there is truth to it: Get rid of most of the rules.What I mean by that, is look at B/X by comparison. There aren't separate skill checks. Wanna do something? Tell the DM what you want to do. Maybe they might ask you to make an ability check (roll under your ability score on a d20). That's it.I started with B/X in 1981. I noticed a trend. When AD&amp;D added NWP, players started acting like they couldn't do X unless they were proficient in it. Then 3e came out and it got worse. Players looked at each other to see who had the highest modifier, and that PC, only that PC, would make the check. It's been the same since.When I teach kids the game, I usually use my own game which is modeled after B/X in simplicity but for 5e mechanics. Without defined of skills or knowing rules, the kids come up with some of the greatest ideas. They didn't look at their character sheet before trying something because there was nothing on the character sheet to effect it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 9606928, member: 15700"] This is gonna sound sarcastic or tongue in cheek, but there is truth to it: Get rid of most of the rules. What I mean by that, is look at B/X by comparison. There aren't separate skill checks. Wanna do something? Tell the DM what you want to do. Maybe they might ask you to make an ability check (roll under your ability score on a d20). That's it. I started with B/X in 1981. I noticed a trend. When AD&D added NWP, players started acting like they couldn't do X unless they were proficient in it. Then 3e came out and it got worse. Players looked at each other to see who had the highest modifier, and that PC, [I]only [/I]that PC, would make the check. It's been the same since. When I teach kids the game, I usually use my own game which is modeled after B/X in simplicity but for 5e mechanics. Without defined of skills or knowing rules, the kids come up with some of the greatest ideas. They didn't look at their character sheet before trying something because there was nothing on the character sheet to effect it. [/QUOTE]

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