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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6597786" data-attributes="member: 996">Sounds reasonable.  But, dissociative mechanics are a worthless tool for that purpose, because they can be found in any mechanic.  It'd be better to do focus groups or surveys or other forms of market research to see what your customer really wanted.  5e, for instance, is the product of some pretty deeply flawed surveys, and, reportedly, some focus groups.  5e is not remotely free of dissociative mechanics, but it does present many caster choices that have a wide variety of powers that they can use quite frequently and with few restrictions, and it does have only a few non-magical choices that are all relegated to a striker-like role, and few choices or resources.   It's not the confirmation bias of the people in question, it's the confirmation bias of an observer listening to an unwarranted complaint that I was referring to.If you hated the cook enough, or would benefit enough from his failure, you could easily find yourself taking even the most spurious or demonstrably false complaint seriously, because you want to believe he's a bad cook, and to believe that others feel the same way.  By the same token, you could hear a few complaints, and manage to believe that the 'majority' of people felt that way.</blockquote>