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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9821326" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Just went back and looked at the first couple pages of that thread, and saw really only a couple people actually seemingly all that excited about the loss of that one single ability due to "wizard fandom", as the other few people who commented on its removal just thought it was a bad rule in and of itself (and were glad it was removed for that reason, but not having to do with any need of keeping wizard "primary"). So I imagine that's why I didn't remember it... because three people losing their minds over a single ability thrown out during playtesting does not exactly make for some sort of big conspiracy involving WotC caving to the "wizard fan" whims. I mean... in that specific instance, it might very well have been that WotC canned the ability because it just wasn't good... not because they got browbeaten by the "wizard fan" mob demanding justice for their pet class.</p><p></p><p>And let's be real... there were more than enough of the rest of us in that thread telling those folks who were gleeful about it that they were being ridiculous. So WotC had no need to go running scared over the comments of a handful of people on a messageboard. If they ever felt like they had to go running... WotC would have done it back in 2015 and errata'd the Great Weapon Master feat in response... because there were a heck of a lot more people and threads caterwauling over that feat being "unbalanced" than there ever was of people mad that Spell Versatility got canned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9821326, member: 7006"] Just went back and looked at the first couple pages of that thread, and saw really only a couple people actually seemingly all that excited about the loss of that one single ability due to "wizard fandom", as the other few people who commented on its removal just thought it was a bad rule in and of itself (and were glad it was removed for that reason, but not having to do with any need of keeping wizard "primary"). So I imagine that's why I didn't remember it... because three people losing their minds over a single ability thrown out during playtesting does not exactly make for some sort of big conspiracy involving WotC caving to the "wizard fan" whims. I mean... in that specific instance, it might very well have been that WotC canned the ability because it just wasn't good... not because they got browbeaten by the "wizard fan" mob demanding justice for their pet class. And let's be real... there were more than enough of the rest of us in that thread telling those folks who were gleeful about it that they were being ridiculous. So WotC had no need to go running scared over the comments of a handful of people on a messageboard. If they ever felt like they had to go running... WotC would have done it back in 2015 and errata'd the Great Weapon Master feat in response... because there were a heck of a lot more people and threads caterwauling over that feat being "unbalanced" than there ever was of people mad that Spell Versatility got canned. [/QUOTE]
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