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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4586614" data-attributes="member: 1054">I'm not dismissing them, I'm saying I never encountered them -- BEFORE the designers announced &quot;These are the problems, we're fixing them!&quot; Then, all of a sudden, we have this great surge of people saying &quot;Oh yeah, I always hated that!&quot; and &quot;Woo! At long last!&quot;Where were you all for the last 35 years of D&amp;Ds history? How did WOTC find this Silent Majority? And why didn't they find them back in 2000?Let me put it this way: Suppose one of the biggest changes in 5e is &quot;Elves no longer have pointed ears!&quot;, and, suddenly, out of nowhere, you have people claiming &quot;Wow! I'm so glad they fixed that! I can't believe it took so long!&quot; Wouldn't you find it at least a little... odd? Wouldn't you wonder &quot;Where were all the ENWorld threads on 'Why pointy ears suck!' all this time?&quot;That's what I'm experiencing with a lot of 4e changes. This feeling of &quot;So, where did all these people come from?&quot; Trying to keep this on topic to MOTP -- why is a mandated cosmology necessary? Were people REALLY confused by switching between Eberron and Forgotten Realms? Why is the &quot;backstory&quot; of the gods warring with titans written into the very structure of the universe? Why do we need an &quot;origin&quot; for devils? Aren't these precisely the things that a DM is supposed to decide for him/her self?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4586614, member: 1054"] I'm not dismissing them, I'm saying I never encountered them -- BEFORE the designers announced "These are the problems, we're fixing them!" Then, all of a sudden, we have this great surge of people saying "Oh yeah, I always hated that!" and "Woo! At long last!" Where were you all for the last 35 years of D&Ds history? How did WOTC find this Silent Majority? And why didn't they find them back in 2000? Let me put it this way: Suppose one of the biggest changes in 5e is "Elves no longer have pointed ears!", and, suddenly, out of nowhere, you have people claiming "Wow! I'm so glad they fixed that! I can't believe it took so long!" Wouldn't you find it at least a little... odd? Wouldn't you wonder "Where were all the ENWorld threads on 'Why pointy ears suck!' all this time?" That's what I'm experiencing with a lot of 4e changes. This feeling of "So, where did all these people come from?" Trying to keep this on topic to MOTP -- why is a mandated cosmology necessary? Were people REALLY confused by switching between Eberron and Forgotten Realms? Why is the "backstory" of the gods warring with titans written into the very structure of the universe? Why do we need an "origin" for devils? Aren't these precisely the things that a DM is supposed to decide for him/her self? [/QUOTE]

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