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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2519690" data-attributes="member: 3649">Some idealized combo of Blue Rose, d20 Modern, Arcana Unearthed and Iron Heroes <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Whatever is done, D&D needs to be one book, priced for easy entry. $20 in current value at the absolute top. $15.00 would be better.  Core Classes: Fighter, Mage, Rogue. A simple system of choosing skill sets, Saves and additional abilities that allows one to create Paladins, Rangers, Clerics, and Druids. A basic combat section and an advanced combat section. No adventure or later system should assume you are using the advanced system. A basic selection of spells, which are broken into Simple, Complex and 'spend a feat or class ability use to do this' level. 15-20 spells at a lower level, maybe no more than five or six at the highest levels. I don't want a Champions-like system but having a simple implementation of energy types and spell type (ray, cone, touch, ranged, whatrever) should be able to wipe out most repetative-type spells. No need for a Magic Missle and Melph's Acid Arrow and Fireball...  consolidate and simplify until it hurts, then do it some more. All skills are class skills.  GM advice. Handling player advice. Ajudicating beyond the rules advice.  A handfull of misc magic items. 20-30 should be more than enough. Toss out most of  the weird stuff that you see maybe once in a blue moon. Simplified rules for potions and scrolls, xp and pricing thereof; as in, like, three or four sentences. Or just stick it inthe spell description. A sample spell:  Cure Wounds (scales)Level: 1Effect: You cure 1d6 points of wounds per caster level.Special: You can spend additional uses per day to cure other things. Minor condition (dazed, nauseous): +1. Major condition (unconscious): +2. Disease: +3. Ability Damage: +1 per ability point. Death: +10. 1d8 per level: +2. 1d10 per level: +4Potion: 50gp +5xp per use expended. Wand: 500gp + 150xp/charge There, we just got rid of like seven or eight spells in seven lines plus put in magic item creation info. THat's what I'm talking about. Concise. Based on a scalable system. Plays well with the magic item creation system a few pages further on. 30-50 monsters, the classic bread and butter monsters. Dragons: two or three kinds. Giants: 1-2 kinds. Humanoids: 5-6. Two or three extraplanar things at most. All the weird specialized stuff can be saved for adventures and future supplements.</blockquote>

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