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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8115725" data-attributes="member: 2525">I have no issue with reprinting the cantrips and most of your reply deals with the reprint. Most people I know have access to them through DNDBeyond, and I don't think that access is rare at all. If these cantrips needed updates, why would they wait FIVE YEARS of people playing with them to do it, and then do it through a reprint when we have important errata out AS ERRATA on things already? Who was complaining about these cantrips being usable through warcaster? WHO? I have never once seen that complaint.I do not think this kind of errata "keeps people engaged". I think it "Keeps people really pissed off that suddenly their character no longer functions the way it very clearly was OK to function as for five years straight". Sudden, inexplicable retroactive changes which were not even announced as errata to begin with and were never a known issue in any forum for "not working well" is not the kind of thing which people appreciate from gaming companies.Nor do I think a motive for errata should ever be "let's keep the game fresh". NEW CONTENT is what keeps the game fresh. Errata to "keep the game fresh" is the kind of thing a collectible card game company would do to persuade people to buy new content by disabling old content...something which happened in the bad old days of CCG glut and which didn't go over well then either.I've never once, in any gaming forum for any kind of game at all, seen people describe those kinds of changes as a desirable way to "keep the game fresh". Instead I see them described as "the gaming company appears to be out of touch with their fanbase." This is the kind of change that soured people on 4e, over time. "Fixing" things which were not broken and which nobody was complaining about, which made tables suddenly "out of date". It's the kind of thing WOTC said they wanted to avoid with 5e. It's a bad sign they're now engaged in doing just that.</blockquote>

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