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<blockquote data-quote="MoutonRustique" data-source="post: 7165752" data-attributes="member: 22362">Here's an insane dream :- A WotC intern would have been told : &quot;Here buddy, sift through the material, take a good long look at the CO boards, and trim this list of feats down to 20 per tier per class. Hum... add another 5 per race per tier and 10 &quot;general&quot; per tier. When you've got all that, find them in the CB, save that as a campaign file and we'll upload that to our subscribers. So... Get crackin' Boyo!But on to the actual topic.For my part, the greatest lesson to learn here is how much presentation (as a whole) really, really matters! You'll be hard-pressed to find someone that finds the Essentials stuff to be bad in-and-off itself for &quot;objective&quot; reasons. Parts of it, of course - hell, I can't think of anything there isn't some part of I don't like... But even then, the way it was presented, the context of its arrival, all those things that spoke of the intent (real or imagined) turned a good deal of people against it.So, if you're building something for others, make sure you're &quot;saying&quot; something they want to here. The old phrase &quot;We don't know what we want&quot; is very much true. The reverse is also important. You can just look at the myriad of threads on forums where people argue nonsensical positions and contradict their own axioms.Note that I'm not talking about a difference in preferences - those are valid, but I've seen quite a few say they want X, but then go on to say that A, B, C, and D are completely unacceptable - but then A, B, C, and D are integral parts of X...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoutonRustique, post: 7165752, member: 22362"] Here's an insane dream : - A WotC intern would have been told : "[I]Here buddy, sift through the material, take a good long look at the CO boards, and trim this list of feats down to 20 per tier per class. Hum... add another 5 per race per tier and 10 "general" per tier. When you've got all that, find them in the CB, save that as a campaign file and we'll upload that to our subscribers. So... Get crackin' Boyo![/I] But on to the actual topic. For my part, the greatest lesson to learn here is [I]how much presentation (as a whole) really, [B]really[/B] matters![/I] You'll be hard-pressed to find someone that finds the Essentials stuff to be [I]bad[/I] in-and-off itself for "objective" reasons. Parts of it, of course - hell, I can't think of anything there isn't some part of I don't like... But even then, the way it was presented, the context of its arrival, all those things that spoke of the [I]intent[/I] (real or imagined) turned a good deal of people against it. So, if you're building something for others, make sure you're "saying" something they want to here. The old phrase "We don't know what we want" is very much true. The reverse is also important. You can just look at the myriad of threads on forums where people argue nonsensical positions and contradict their own axioms. Note that I'm not talking about a difference in preferences - those are valid, but I've seen quite a few say they want X, but then go on to say that A, B, C, and D are completely unacceptable - but then A, B, C, and D are integral parts of X... [/QUOTE]

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