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DnD 5e might work without the attunement restrictions, but it creates a lot of space for players to break the game, often with little effort or intent.
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D and D5's attunement rule exists for a
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reason and it's very important, but
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maybe you don't need it in your games
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depending on how you run your games.
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Attunement exists to limit the number of
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magic items that a single creature can
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have equipped. Specifically, magic items
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that either shouldn't be stacked because
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stacking a whole bunch of them would
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cause problems or magic items that
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introduce some complicated mechanic that
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slows down the game in some way. Putting
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too many of those kind of items on one
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character will make their turns take
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forever. It bogs down the game and it
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disrupts the play experience. So, as an
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example, rings of protection require
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attunement. You could in theory attune
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to three of them and have plus three AC
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and plus three on all of your saves. And
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that is that is massively powerful in
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D&D's bounded math. If you could stack
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even more than that, that could get
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pretty destructive pretty quickly. Like
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looking at the artificer who can attune
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to a maximum of six items at level 20.
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Imagine attuning to six rings of
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protection and having plus six on all of
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your saves, plus six to AC. You're
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basically untouchable, which makes it
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very difficult for the DM to challenge
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you in any meaningful way. So,
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attunement is meant to prevent that or
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at least try and discourage it cuz
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there's always exceptions to everything.
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There's always ways around things.
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Players will always find them. I will
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help. Second option is again to prevent
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overly complex items from bogging down
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the game. Thinking of examples, a lot of
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magic staves require attunement. A lot
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of items which have active abilities
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like uh weapons or armor or the new than
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spell tattoos like those all require
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attunement because they give you some
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new option that can bog down the game in
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some way. And atunement is there to
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prevent those from running wild and
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knocking over the game. It's entirely
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possible that you can run D and D
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without attunement, especially if you
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just don't give out a ton of those
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items. Like if you as the dungeon master
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are just, yeah, I'm not going to give
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out a bunch of items that slow down the
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game, but everyone can have stuff with
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like passive effects and things that
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they're not going to use in combat. And
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the game works just fine if you do that.
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The game technically works if you don't
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use magic items at all. But if you're
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going for like random treasure or
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whatever items that published adventures
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give out, it's entirely possible that
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you'll run into problems if you remove
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the attunement restrictions.
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