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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 5916676" data-attributes="member: 9053">This made me laugh a bit. I'm going to playtest the ... heck ... out of this game, and I'm going to suggest D&D Next be exactly the kind of game I and my group wants. I have no interest in creating a game I don't want to play. At the same time, how much is WotC going to cater to our small but loud voices? Probably not much at all, but I'm still going to talk about it. And I know that many folks who want a different style of game are going to do the same thing.I know you don't like 4E, so talking about how you want a return to earlier concepts is your job as part of this playtest, and the job of other people who feel the same way. If you don't do it, well, I'm going to say that WotC staff don't have the [psychic] keyword, so there's little chance that what you want will be heard.It's WotC's job to take all the feedback they get, and synthesize it together to make the next edition. I think that strong and direct feedback about what a group wants or doesn't is how they do that.This explains the disagreement: paying taxes in no way gives you a right to complain (in my opinion, of course). Paying taxes but not voting or getting involved is the equivalent of taking no part in the playtest, then buying the books sight unseen and complaining that WotC didn't give you what you wanted and stole your money.The bad restaurant? The bad movies? The bad government? The bad game? None of them change until you vote them out in different ways. When I was in college, we'd go to a diner at 2AM after finishing up gaming. One of the people in the group hated doing this, and complained about it all the time ... but only after we got there, and after we had ordered!So I'll say it again: even if you don't like the same things as I do in D&D (and when I say "you" in this, it's the generic you of anyone reading this... ) get involved with the playtest and let WotC know what you want. I want the next edition to be successful, even if it turns out that it doesn't resemble something I like or will play at that point. Success of D&D is that important to gaming as a whole (all of this being my opinion, of course...).And hey, I can even invoke one of my favorite quotes:" We're told every day, 'You can't change the world.' But the world is changing every day. Only question is...who's doing it? You or somebody else?"-J. Michael Straczynski</blockquote>

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