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<blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 6452138" data-attributes="member: 78752">I think your reaction is understandable, and for what it is worth I think that if D&amp;D5 had been released as the follow-up to AD&amp;D2 you might see more people agreeing with you.&nbsp; But for my part, at least, D&amp;D5 is coming on the heels of 15 years of incredibly specific minutiae.&nbsp; Your mileage may vary, of course, but I was ready for a change!The flip side of the coin is that, as D&amp;D4 clearly demonstrated, Page 42 (the dungeon master can do whatever he likes) is not /sufficient/.&nbsp; You can't just say, &quot;Here are the (incredibly specific) rules, change them at will.&quot;&nbsp; D&amp;D is a cooperative game, and if the dungeon master tries to say the books are &quot;wrong,&quot; his players are going to pitch a fit, and to some extent rightly so -- they paid as much money for the books as their dungeon master did -- they have a very real right to use them as printed.&nbsp; More established groups have less of an issue with this, but that doesn't mean it's not an issue for a lot of us.By proposing a rule but not spelling it out, D&amp;D5 /requires/ players to ask their dungeon master what it means, making dungeon master fiat a real part of the game again for the first time in 20 years.&nbsp; It's the best of both worlds -- a codified ruleset that still encourages individualized play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DMZ2112, post: 6452138, member: 78752"] I think your reaction is understandable, and for what it is worth I think that if D&D5 had been released as the follow-up to AD&D2 you might see more people agreeing with you. But for my part, at least, D&D5 is coming on the heels of 15 years of incredibly specific minutiae. Your mileage may vary, of course, but I was ready for a change! The flip side of the coin is that, as D&D4 clearly demonstrated, Page 42 (the dungeon master can do whatever he likes) is not /sufficient/. You can't just say, "Here are the (incredibly specific) rules, change them at will." D&D is a cooperative game, and if the dungeon master tries to say the books are "wrong," his players are going to pitch a fit, and to some extent rightly so -- they paid as much money for the books as their dungeon master did -- they have a very real right to use them as printed. More established groups have less of an issue with this, but that doesn't mean it's not an issue for a lot of us. By proposing a rule but not spelling it out, D&D5 /requires/ players to ask their dungeon master what it means, making dungeon master fiat a real part of the game again for the first time in 20 years. It's the best of both worlds -- a codified ruleset that still encourages individualized play. [/QUOTE]

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