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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FreeTheSlaves" data-source="post: 5892551" data-attributes="member: 9952">Oh for sure there is a limit to how much you should listen. Simply open listening is no good, it's got to be solicited feedback over specific points.Most of my gaming friends don't even lurk on any D&D web-sites, but they play and they spend - more than me. So in my gaming group I'm the tip of the ice-berg and my opinions differ markedly their tastes. Website vocalization ain't a substitute for real work market research.What got me last time was the almost total lack of public feedback. At the time it didn't worry me a whit, but after a while I started to think soliciting public feedback would have been a better move.Oh I don't know about the paladin story issue being not of significant interest to WotC. Now that the initial hiss & roar (myself guilty <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />) has been released, the designers may well (hopefully) think to themselves that there is a need to accommodate the exclusionist proponents with the inclusivists in an acceptable framework. This may well be important to help them define the Cleric from the Paladin and vice versa. Put another way, flavour and story can matter.</blockquote>