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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5333206" data-attributes="member: 3400">I can see where you're coming from a little bit. And it's not just the rules forums in which this can happen, though I think it happens a little more there. But try to think about it as exposing a little more of the debate between rule mechanics that some of the developers may even have had. Perhaps the wrong viewpoint won with the designers on occasion, perhaps the right viewpoint won (from the perspective of making a game you like). Just try not to let the posting style in some of those arguments drive you away from either viewpoint. Try to weigh them independently with how you prefer your games to run (which may change over time).I have to say that some of the rule arguments on this board and Paizo's, particularly the Pathfinder play test, showed me just how good a game like 2e actually was and how some of the 3e deviations from 1e/2e rules helped the game spin a little out of balance in play. While PF is still my edition of choice, my estimation of 1e and 2e designs rose. Now if I can properly hybridize them without bogging the game down...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>