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I mean, it's worth noting that 4e characters were specifically designed to be competent, but to never have too many powers overall. You only get 2 at-wills (3 for humans), and then a rotating set of no more than 4 encounters and 4 daily powers from your class. Anything else is a bonus you...

"Very strongly implies" is not what is demanded of Fighters though. Fighters have to have ironclad, unequivocal proof. The same standard should apply to everyone. Either the Fighter having wuxia powers means that wuxia powers have implied justification--just as Wizards copying scrolls "very...

I don't really understand what that has to do with what I said. This sounds, to me, like a demand that any new edition actually be well-tested, rigorous, and serious about delivering systems that genuinely and fairly reliably work. Which is something I absolutely want to see. It doesn't seem...

Without throwing it.

They do? Where are they? Why do they get no representation? Because as far as I can tell, no such thing has been represented in D&D--not even 4e--outside of the 3.5e Book of Nine Swords content. That's the one and only place such things have ever been presented. What have I missed?

Then I sincerely apologize for misunderstanding you. What did you mean by references to old school play, in the context of what I had said previously? That is, prior to the misunderstanding, the conversation was: Because, as I was given to understand, you were agreeing to the claim that the...

Okay. When has that ever been true for the D&D Wizard? When has it ever lifted even a finger to show the academia from which these powers derive and to which these powers are directed? Or to show the hermetic mysteries and transcendental enlightenment Faustian archetypes sought? Why is the...

Because writing "wizard" or "sorcerer" is so diegetic.

That's not what I said. You specifically spoke of rules that don't work and need to be replaced by the user, because that's what needed to be done before. Literally have another active thread right now where that's the topic under discussion. That people wanted the old school rules to suck...

Your hatred is showing again.

Given the nasty things I was, and continue to be, told about my own preferences as a result of this? Grace has its limits.

And no one has yet actually explained why I should pay for rules I know, consciously, are badly made.

Those who noted the serious survey flaws were entirely drowned out by those who defended them to the hilt. And I'm fairly sure some of the very people complaining about design-by-survey now are those who specifically defended it back in 2012, 2013 as the height of good sense. "Why wouldn't you...

So we're back to "the rules suck, so I just ignore them and do whatever seems right without any actual rules". Just bloody wonderful. Amazing that people think this is work worthy of paying for.

Because I am daunted by the scale of the task. A lone designer trying to do what literally a team of dozens of people took three years to build. Even if that team's result was unsatisfying, it is not a task a lone person takes on lightly. Especially because I very strongly believe in collecting...

Gotta keep them in the "less than what even regular athletes can achieve" gulag somehow. For goodness' sake, it's a fantasy game. Why are only those who went to magic colleges allowed to be fantastical?

So now we need to listen to fan response, but only when Lanefan thinks it's the correct fan response? I am being a little harsh here, but this points to something that has frustrated me for a very long time. People have long (long long long long) justified hating on certain things, you know of...

Given the number of times you have previously asked me why I complain about 5e as it is...it makes this comment either confusing or frustrating.

You also see it in Greek and Norse myth. Heroes who could redirect rivers, climb mountains of glass, carve entire new valleys, etc.

Whereas for me that would be the genuine worst thing. Because now any poor decisions made 30, 40, 50 years ago are albatrosses around the game's neck.