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Okay. My problem is that I dispute that reasoning. It can still mean that people end up dropping it for having missed the mark. Because...

A playtest document is designed to be distributed for easy, rapid testing. It is barebones, focused on efficiently communicating the...

As said to Micah: The problem is that the standard being levied is one of being irritated with design-by-popular-vote, but that is...

But "plenty of people [opposed it]" is precisely the standard you're complaining about if you dislike the hyperbland sorcerer and...

Actually...the vast majority of play, once you have completed the "main story" of an MMO, is almost entirely group-focused. That's...why...

Bearing in mind that I am inventing numbers as I write this post, and thus any numerical balance is extremely unlikely to bear out...

So what does that make of a huge, huge swathe of both complaints levied at, I dunno, some particular version of some popular game out...

Irrelevant. Player psychology is doing so. Are we now saying that the players should adjust to the game's design, regardless of their...

Perhaps not; but it is a general truism in game design that, unless you specifically go out of your way to make support very enjoyable...

It is? When was that established? I never got that understanding from it, and it was never communicated in any of the level-based games...

I didn't have too much problem with some degree of earning it, or growing into it, but that process was less like 'the birth of a hero'...

That....was literally my point. What GM hears "Hey, I have this third-party product which makes better monsters" and thinks "Golly...

How does that help? That just means the PHB, DMG, and MM need to be even better, because now those are functionally the only books that...

Who cares there's a fix somewhere when 3/4 of GMs don't know it's there, 3/4 of those who do will refuse to ever even consider using it...

Playtest documents are....literally nothing like "written down house rules" beyond....the fact that they are written. Are you seriously...