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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 6635188" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Mostly I like 5e, but there are a few things that make me want to rewrite it into a less vague, less poorly written mess. Mostly, I hate that we've gone back to making choices early in the adventuring career, and then riding a railroad all the way to level 20. Yeah, there are classes and subclasses that avoid this, but I had to homebrew a monk subclass just so I could play a monk that wasn't either throwing around spells or just completely railroaded after level 3. Outside of DnD, I won't touch an RPG that railroads as much as stock 5e does. The lack of even optional expanded weapons, weapon properties, and weapons rules. No defensive weapons, the whole idea that nunchaku are just a club...like..nope. They're not the magical weapon that cartoons would have you think, but they are definitely a finesse weapon, at the least. The main gouche shouldn't use the same mechanics as a dagger made for offense. This is a case where simplicity has made the game less interesting, less fun and really not gained anything in return. The whole idea that it's ok for the rules to be vague and in some cases almost blatantly poorly written, because &quot;rulings not rules&quot;. That's a stupid excuse. I already know a few people who wanted to DM, and don't anymore because they don't want to have to help design the game while they try to learn how to run it. But I definitely like that 5e is easy to homebrew/houserule. It's just that they didn't have to make it vague and so much a game that requires a good GM just to function in order to accomplish that. They could have made a game that is elegantly designed and solid, and it would be just as friendly to improvisation, homebrewing, and houseruling. Moreso, since it would be harder to accidentally break while doing so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 6635188, member: 6704184"] Mostly I like 5e, but there are a few things that make me want to rewrite it into a less vague, less poorly written mess. Mostly, I hate that we've gone back to making choices early in the adventuring career, and then riding a railroad all the way to level 20. Yeah, there are classes and subclasses that avoid this, but I had to homebrew a monk subclass just so I could play a monk that wasn't either throwing around spells or just completely railroaded after level 3. Outside of DnD, I won't touch an RPG that railroads as much as stock 5e does. The lack of even optional expanded weapons, weapon properties, and weapons rules. No defensive weapons, the whole idea that nunchaku are just a club...like..nope. They're not the magical weapon that cartoons would have you think, but they are definitely a finesse weapon, at the least. The main gouche shouldn't use the same mechanics as a dagger made for offense. This is a case where simplicity has made the game less interesting, less fun and really not gained anything in return. The whole idea that it's ok for the rules to be vague and in some cases almost blatantly poorly written, because "rulings not rules". That's a stupid excuse. I already know a few people who wanted to DM, and don't anymore because they don't want to have to help design the game while they try to learn how to run it. But I definitely like that 5e is easy to homebrew/houserule. It's just that they didn't have to make it vague and so much a game that requires a good GM just to function in order to accomplish that. They could have made a game that is elegantly designed and solid, and it would be just as friendly to improvisation, homebrewing, and houseruling. Moreso, since it would be harder to accidentally break while doing so. [/QUOTE]

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