hong said:
You think too highly of yourself.
Do you even understand what it means, when I say "I think teh ENWorld community is a reasonably representative slice of the D&D playerbase as a whole" ... ?
I don't "think too highly" of anyone; I simply think ENWorlders are, by and large, average gamers ... that we are no different from most OTHER gamers out there. And so, it is reasonable and logical to extend percentages observed here, to the wider community.
That, btw, is how things like gallup polls owrk; when they say X percent of americans like Y thing, you don't think they actually called EVERY american, do you?
No; they asked a randomly-selected, small group, which was deemed to be representative of the average of the whole.
That's because people don't like their toys being taken away from them.
Funny; I don't tend to play fighters ata ll (I strongly prefer sorcerors), so crit-stacking doesn't take any of MY toys away ... and I'm still upset by the nonsensical change to somethign which didn't NEED it.
If there were no complaints, there would be no need for such responses.
Actually, there weren't complaints, there were brags -- "I can get a threat range of BLAH BLAH BLAH hugeness" ... "yeah, so what, there're a lot of crit-immune baddies out there".
There is no such thing as a "default-rules" game.
Yes there is -- the Core Rulebooks.
Everybody has house rules,
Not universally true; I've played with GMs who were great at making cscenarios, but were REAL stick-in-the-mud types, literal core rules only nothign but exactly as the book says sorts of people.
and I've got no doubt even in 3.5E this will remain the case. Unless you play Living Greyhawk or something similar, but from all reports LG is a travesty of D&D, so that's your problem.
Andy is creating MORE things for me to houserule, that didn't need houserules before. IOW, more work for me ... without fixing anythign BROKEN at all.
Tell me where it says I shoudl just bend over and ENJOY that.
