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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9435642" data-attributes="member: 6807784">They always win because the problems brought up online are usually (not always, just usually) not that deep. Having read through the 2024 PHB handbook myself now, I can say a lot of the stuff people are bringing up is second-hand nonsense and isn't that serious. Two Weapon Fighting is fine, most spells are fine, and the things that keep coming up in discussion -- Giant Insect, Conjure Minor Elementals, Giant Insect, Hunter's Mark requiring concentration, Giant Insect -- just aren't that significantly changed. There's this weird thing going on where people here on this forum are paradoxically announcing the game is sloppy and broken and not enough changed to consider getting the new books. Yes, this is a paradox because if the game is hardly changed, and if you are happy with 2014, then this "sloppy and broken" critique comes off as dramatic hyperbole. Which it is.D&D is not the best game. It is not my favorite game, even though it's the one I've settled on. It can be better in many ways. But people get so unabashedly dramatic over the game's rules and make mountains out of mole hills and then expect everyone else to have the same stark opinions.Now, WotC is also a naughty word up company. But they are truly no worse or better then most others. Hiringer the PInkertons was real scum behavior; the OGL was scum behavior; they value profit over quality. That's a symptom of a rotten world, and while I agree we should call these things out, we have to admit that most people just do not care. We can barely feed ourselves. COrporate greed is bleeding us all dry. There are political crises in every part of the world. WotC always wins because compared to most of the evil out there, they are relatively benign. Do I wish we could hold them to a higher standard? Yes. Do I still think people are way too dramatic over this? Yes.</blockquote>

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