Making 5th Edition Rules-Light
Warning: this is a long one y'all I am personally a huge fan of rules-light RPG systems, and with all the recent talk of Daggerheart , MCDM , and D&D 5.5e , my minimizing gaze has turned itself on the community's most hateable game (with some exceptions for the bigots): D&D 5e. Now, I actually really enjoy 5e in play, though that enjoyment often comes in spite of the system rather than because of it. I enjoy the focus on heroic fantasy and the emphasis on narrative arcs and character backstories. This isn't to say that I don't like the OSR or NSR - I actually love those play styles and communities, and their focus on emergent narrative - I just enjoy another style of RPGs too. So, having gotten that disclaimer out of the way, what's the goal here? In short, I'm going to boil down D&D 5e (as represented in the PHB and MM , not all the expansions) into something more rules-light and fiction oriented. I want to keep the core mechanics relatively sim