D&D 5E My happiness or yours.

[Shadowsoul]

They said GWF tested well, which just means people didn't hate the weapon styles. Or that the majority didn't have a strong feeling. This is a discussion between minorities in the community. Really, most big problematic discussions about alignment or DoaM or spellcasting fighters likely only matters to two minorities of the player base while the majority just wants to play.

Sounds more like the math worked which it does. Mathematically DoAm works, it's just in all other areas where it fails.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

That passionate minority are the people DMing a lot of their games.

I don't think you can this conclusion with any amount of certainty. I've seen "squeaky wheels" that are DMs, players, or even people who don't play the game at all. They should base their design on good, solid feedback when available, not base it on who can start the most threads and create the most noise.

 

[WayneLigon]

Because it's not an option, it's a mechanic. It's an element of the game like rolling a d20 and adding a modifier, or spending an action, or rolling twice on advantage. Yes, if you really wanted you could remove d20s as the resolution mechanic the game and replace them with 3d6. But that does not mean d20s are "optional".

The very fact it can be removed and replaced really does mean it's optional, just like every single other element of the game.

 

[Jester David]

The very fact it can be removed and replaced really does mean it's optional, just like every single other element of the game.

Yes and no.

Yes, theoretically every element of the game can be optional. Because there's no mechanic you can't rip out if you really, really want.
No, because there are also purposely optional elements, ones that are designed to be easily removed.

The former is largely irrelevant, because you can rebuild any game. If you're going to spend days "fixing" a game system it really doesn't matter what game you play.
This is a little like the Oberoni Fallacy: An erroneous argument that the rules of a game aren't flawed because they can be ignored, or one or more "house rules" can be made as exceptions.

Yes, you can remove the option. But since you can remove any option, that doesn't really need to be said, nor is it a satisfactory fix for a personally broken mechanic.