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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 7230882" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>It's not envy, it's an understanding that maintaining an Organized Play campaign isn't like running your own home game. In a home game, you can go ahead and throw whatever you want into the game and if things blow up, you can just start the game over. That's not really an option with OP -- if you screw up the game by adding things that shouldn't belong, you have limited options to fix the situation short of getting rid of the things that don't belong, and if you're going to do that anyway (and thus piss off the people who got those things), then why bother adding those things to the campaign in the first place?</p><p></p><p>My problem is that this isn't the first time that Mike Mearls has looked at the OP campaign and seen, not a program that promotes his game, or a well-managed social experiment, but a plaything for him to satisfy whatever need-of-the-moment he has (get more playtesters for his Unearthed Arcana material, up the amount of donations he can pass along to a charity). It's frankly irresponsible behavior, and short of convincing someone higher up on the food chain that it's irresponsible behavior and order him to stop it (which doesn't seem likely), the only other option is to point out how irresponsible it is in the hopes he'll get the message and cut it out.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 7230882, member: 17607"] It's not envy, it's an understanding that maintaining an Organized Play campaign isn't like running your own home game. In a home game, you can go ahead and throw whatever you want into the game and if things blow up, you can just start the game over. That's not really an option with OP -- if you screw up the game by adding things that shouldn't belong, you have limited options to fix the situation short of getting rid of the things that don't belong, and if you're going to do that anyway (and thus piss off the people who got those things), then why bother adding those things to the campaign in the first place? My problem is that this isn't the first time that Mike Mearls has looked at the OP campaign and seen, not a program that promotes his game, or a well-managed social experiment, but a plaything for him to satisfy whatever need-of-the-moment he has (get more playtesters for his Unearthed Arcana material, up the amount of donations he can pass along to a charity). It's frankly irresponsible behavior, and short of convincing someone higher up on the food chain that it's irresponsible behavior and order him to stop it (which doesn't seem likely), the only other option is to point out how irresponsible it is in the hopes he'll get the message and cut it out. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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