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People shout at WotC when they do anything new. Or anything old.

100%. People who makes those kinds of posts should generally be ignored. They're a net negative to the community.

I think the difference is that the pineapple thread is obviously offtopic. He focuses on communities built around a specific thing (in...

The only thing you can "produce" is changed minds? I can produce understanding, without having to shift people's positions. I can...

The problem is that 99% of the time it isn't criticism, it is a statement of preference couched as objective fact--often because folks...

You can. But not if you frame it (even if just to yourself) as an attempt to sway folks from their starting position! Not all...

I think it’s more toxic. One poster doing a drive-by isn’t that big of a deal compared to page after page of yelling from multiple posters.

Sure. But if you are trying to be part of a community, maybe concentrating too much on criticism does more harm than good.

Why is the assumption that 100% optimize for stats rather than optimize for story?

Wow, I don't think we play the same game. Or even read the same rulebooks. 5e chomped down so much on this. There's no Rule 0, and if...

This is not new, it was already in the agreement.

No its not... its the actual company saying these books are selling well in multiple instances and people with no evidence or info...

Very irresponsible for Sky to call it a lie and imply the program has intentions. The program isn't alive. It's a text predictor that...

True, but there are systems that can be learned in 30 minutes. There are also systems that require months of practice and research to do...

It sold like hotcakes, though, and at least we had fun with it in my circles. The Internet "consensus" is...not necessarily what people...