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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.

Are you planning to completely rework the combat system and DCs to reflect the reduction then?

I mean, I don't think it could have done anything to help, that's for sure. Whether they were great otherwise, I can't say. They never really got that much chance....but it certainly didn't feel great to have my warnings brushed off or, worse, met with (what seemed to me like) extreme hostility...

I mean, it should be? The point of the game is to face challenges. That means the goal of learning to play, at its most baseline level, is learning how to make choices that improve your ability to overcome the challenges you face. It should be a hard sell to tell payers, "Okay, I want to...

The only reason I am is because another user here, Hussar, very kindly offered to let me join his group, and he has been nothing but a great GM, so I have no complaints. And yes, my experience with 5e has been miserable (outside of Hussar's campaigns; again I want to stress how distinctly...

Sure we can. It would be foolish to do so, but who are these Chess Police that are doing this? Remember, the game we call "chess" today was a controversial house-rule in Medieval Europe, mocked for being "mad queens" chess--but the house rule was incredibly popular, and today, it would be...

That's what a rule is. That's literally what a rule is. It tells you how things will work. Exceptions--if justified--always exist for anything. Always. That's the nature of playing games. Insisting that the rules are suggestions means they mean absolutely, positively nothing at all. They are...

I assume for your second sentence, you mean "why you would", rather than "why you wouldn't", so I'm going to roll with that. I would not play 1e for three key reasons. The "amoral murder-hole heister" playstyle, and the ruleset designed to incentivize that, isn't for me. I don't care for the...

I mean, IF those categories were actually consistent and well-defined, then sure. The big problem with them was that they weren't. They were, like so much in early D&D, the equivalent of sedimentary rock: something accreted from the grit of years, rising out of little more than pure accident...

Yes, I do agree that this is....difficult to understand. Because, in simple terms, this argument reads like this: "The rules were bad, and we disliked them. Since we knew the rules were bad and disliked them, that made it easier to ditch them and do something else. Thus, the rules were actually...

I should like you to check the calendar. Attempting to do so all at once, with a single edition, in one fell swoop, is simply going to implode the game. That's a fact. It took decades to change. It will take decades to reverse--if it can even be reversed. Changing something people have gotten...

Suggestions are cobwebs. Ephemera. They're literally less than nothing--because if it were nothing, at least the players would know that there were nothing between them and the GM's whims.