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The whole thing seems very simple to me. Your preferred version of D&D sucks. His preferred version of D&D sucks. My preferred version of D&D sucks. Her preferred version of D&D sucks. Their preferred version of D&D sucks. All our preferred versions of D&D suck. Every version of D&D sucks...

One person's 'sadly amoral' is another person's 'rational'.

All the time.

We'll see if things actually go the way you are imagining they will. My guess is they will not. This and other small PR things will not drive away enough customers to warrant cutting production value, raise prices and pay their employees less. After all... they produced 4E, which drove away...

Of course! And that's why I didn't ping you to lock the thread so that no one else couldn't talk about it anymore. ;)

I buy products, I don't buy the companies who provide products. I have no relationship with a company prior to a transaction, the transaction itself takes a few moments, and then once the transaction itself is over I have no relationship with the company afterwards. So as long as I'm fine with...

At this point does it even matter? People who are anti-WotC have already stepped off the train. Those that are still on the train even after however many of these incidents have happened obviously don't really care (like myself). So I suspect that the number of players who consider any new...

No we don't.

Defending the marshlands from Human colonization seems the most logical. We as D&D players often have campaigns where our homelands get invaded by goblins and orcs and the like... no reason you can't do the same thing except reverse the species. So urban colonizers of the Human, Dwarven, Elven...

This is a good point, but is also probably the reason other players might argue the point-- how many DMs actually spend their monster actions snuffing out torches/lanterns or dispelling light cantrips? Some probably do, others probably don't... which is why the "party darkvision" question...

Heh heh... well that just proves a very salient point-- there is no way to make something so simple that everyone will be able to use it correctly. ;) Screwing something up always finds a way! My wife runs into this all the time at her work where she gets very detailed in her emails to...

Yup. It's all about ego. Some people just have a hard time accepting that someone who has prominence in the game space they are in might not care about the game in the exact same way they do and it makes them feel bad. See: every person on EN World who gets pissy when Jeremy et. al. design...

I don't mind complex mechanics necessarily... so long as they don't interfere with the story of the character I want to portray. Complex mechanics that reduce options in order to "be complex" to me are a complete waste. For instance, an example at the most baseline level: D&D has multiple...

And people wonder why I have so much disdain for game mechanics in roleplaying games. :D

All I know is that when I read down the multiple giant lists of Feats at the d20PFSRD... on probably 95% of them I see what they do and think "Geez... this thing is ass! Why would anyone ever take this stupid thing, and who thought it was worth designing it?" LOL! Pathfinder Feats-- take an...

This is a really good point, and one that facilitates the rectification of the "Spellcaster PCs get to do all the cool stuff while warrior PCs don't do anything" complaints we always hear people on about. A lot of the people have this mindset that it's only the PC whose mechanics allow them to...

Same. These types of games usually get played as either dice games with a sprinkling of characterization, or characterization games with a sprinkling of dice. I will always choose using board games for the former and RPGs for the latter. Frankly because board games almost to a fault are...

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Absolutely. It's never been otherwise. Too bad though there seems to be an inordinate amount of people out there in gamerland who do kickstarters and pre-orders for products sight-unseen that they end up bitching about after the fact. :)

Eh, why not... let me just say it... Dungeons & Dragons as a game sucks. Dungeons & Dragons as a story rocks. There we go... just get the other side out there in the open to balance out the "pro-game" crowd. :D