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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Micah Sweet" data-source="post: 9501031" data-attributes="member: 6747251">I pretty much agree on all your points. It makes sense to lean your mass market, big tent game toward the most popular choices as a default (which in general won't be what I like, but that's not the point). I do think, however, that WotC's current offering simply doesn't provide enough mechanical variation to give players an idea of some of the different playstyles you can support and use to play D&D the way you want. I didn't use or like all the variant rules included in the 2014 DMG, but I loved having them in there to inspire players to do their own thing, and I will happily pay extra for a bigger book with more options, even if it's baseline assumptions don't match my preferences. I get heated when I feel my preferences are being attacked, especially since I know what I like isn't very popular anymore. Feels like I'm being piled on sometimes (my issue, not yours). I'm sorry about that, and that goes for other posters with whom I've locked horns recently.</blockquote>