{"id":12374,"date":"2017-06-29T01:24:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/terribly-dated-game-commentary\/"},"modified":"2017-09-09T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T14:00:47","slug":"terribly-dated-game-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/terribly-dated-game-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Terribly Dated Game Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having the core D&amp;D fifth edition books on my shelf for <del>well over a year<\/del> almost three years, I finally had good cause to read them. (I&#39;m a bit past the point where I can find the time to read RPGs just for the heck of it.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m both surprised and delighted to discover how little of the Player&#39;s Handbook and Dungeon Master&#39;s Guide are actually <i>rules for play<\/i>: the (300 page) PHB&#39;s rules section is about 25 pages (with 175 for character creation, and 100 for magic-related stuff), and the DMG&#39;s section is roughly 30 pages, with the other 90% almost entirely devoted to world-building guidelines, advice, or examples of once kind or another (with optional rules from older editions of the game scattered throughout, allowing you to easily customize\/homerule the system to whatever flavor of DnD you like best. Potion miscibility tables!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s weird to say 600 total pages of rulebooks represent a lean, simple system, but it really does. Good game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having the core D&amp;D fifth edition books on my shelf for well over a year almost three years, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,128],"tags":[53,115],"class_list":["post-12374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-online-table-top","tag-gaming","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12375,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions\/12375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}