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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7608517" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>More like the fallout, the collateral damage - and what made forums blaze in the flames of hell, and gave mods all over the internet ulcers, of course. Not to mention the undiagnosed tragedy of Post Traumatic Edition War Syndrome. </p><p></p><p> Sure, you do see continuations of the edition war in those threads, it's inevitable when you think about it. The Warlord was introduced in 4e, and it's a valid enough poster boy for some of the stand-out abominations 4e perpetrated: classes balanced via Martial types having dailies (and casters at-wills, but that's OK, cf 5e cantrips), embracing Gygaxian hp rationalizations, formalizing roles, surge-based healing, 'dissociated mechanics,' etc. So, all those complaints get re-hashed, it's almost like Edition-War re-enactment. </p><p>But, it's also where you see the community coming closest to anti-5e edition warring, and I don't just mean the empty threats of rage-quitting. Sometimes the discussions will devolve to the point that someone starts insisting that 5e /can't handle the warlord/, like, the concept/function, at all, that it would somehow break the game - at that point it's an existential attack on 5e's foundational goal of inclusiveness, and just on it's quality as a system. Warlord threads get tiring because I find myself defending the class concept, retro-defending poor dead 4e, /and/ having to defend 5e. </p><p></p><p> It occurs to me that I've never yet been too pleased with a half-ed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7608517, member: 996"] More like the fallout, the collateral damage - and what made forums blaze in the flames of hell, and gave mods all over the internet ulcers, of course. Not to mention the undiagnosed tragedy of Post Traumatic Edition War Syndrome. Sure, you do see continuations of the edition war in those threads, it's inevitable when you think about it. The Warlord was introduced in 4e, and it's a valid enough poster boy for some of the stand-out abominations 4e perpetrated: classes balanced via Martial types having dailies (and casters at-wills, but that's OK, cf 5e cantrips), embracing Gygaxian hp rationalizations, formalizing roles, surge-based healing, 'dissociated mechanics,' etc. So, all those complaints get re-hashed, it's almost like Edition-War re-enactment. But, it's also where you see the community coming closest to anti-5e edition warring, and I don't just mean the empty threats of rage-quitting. Sometimes the discussions will devolve to the point that someone starts insisting that 5e /can't handle the warlord/, like, the concept/function, at all, that it would somehow break the game - at that point it's an existential attack on 5e's foundational goal of inclusiveness, and just on it's quality as a system. Warlord threads get tiring because I find myself defending the class concept, retro-defending poor dead 4e, /and/ having to defend 5e. It occurs to me that I've never yet been too pleased with a half-ed. [/QUOTE]
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