D&D (2024) Where should optional rules go and why?

[Dyson Logos]

I'm strongly in the "optional rules in VERY CLEAR sidebars" or preferably, if there are enough of them "in their own book".

 

[Irlo]

It's the 21st century. I want the optional rules at my fingertips (and the fingertips of everyone in the group). I want to check boxes and slide dials to tune the game to the everyone's taste for whatever campaign we're planning, and then I want the e-PHB/DMG to generate a customized one-volume rule book for me and my friends.

 

[CleverNickName]

It's the 21st century. I want the optional rules at my fingertips (and the fingertips of everyone in the group). I want to check boxes and slide dials to tune the game to the everyone's taste for whatever campaign we're planning, and then I want the e-PHB/DMG to generate a customized one-volume rule book for me and my friends.

That might be closer than we think!

"ChatGPT, create a tabletop roleplaying game that uses the following 5th Edition D&D rules options and variants: spell points, feats, multiclassing, small-sized dwarves, intelligence-based initiative, no alignment, spell mishaps, damage reduction for armor..."

 

[Irlo]

"ChatGPT, create a tabletop roleplaying game that uses the following 5th Edition D&D rules options and variants: spell points, feats, multiclassing, small-sized dwarves, intelligence-based initiative, no alignment, spell mishaps, damage reduction for armor..."

Oh, I really do need to be careful what I wish for.

 

[NaturalZero]

But in 2023, it's a bit pointless. Every gamer reads every book from cover to cover.

I was under the impression that almost no one read the DMG from cover to cover.