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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 4453939" data-attributes="member: 5038">You pretty much described my reaction.  I loved the first two things that I had seen by Mike- The horribly named Myrmidon class from AEG's Mercenaries (still the best Warrior Mage class I have seen, imo)  and Malhavoc's Book of Iron Might.  Some of his other early stuff for the third party companies were also decent.  So, when he went to WOTC, I thought it was a good thing and he would improve their products (and like others I thought he was brought in to work on 4e DND). Word of Iron Heroes had me excited.  The Book of Iron Might was a starting point and it the design goals had me interested. My excitement regarding IH was shortlived. I actually saw Iron Heroes and one of Mearls's design journals at montecook.com (or was it a link to one on his journal?) and, suddenly,  I had a feeling that I was going to regret his going to WOTC.  That has turned out to be the case.  Since Iron Heroes, I haven't seen anything from him that  I like. Furthermore as you mentioned, he and the design team identified many of the problems of 3e, but their solutions, imo and that of my gaming friends from various groups as with your opinion, is that they almost always went completely in the wrong direction and were "unpalatable".  However as you also point out a number of other people disagree, but online I am beginning to see a growing number of people online (not a majority) becoming disenchanted with 4e the more they play it ( I really want to see polls in a year to see where people on these boards stand one way or the other).</blockquote>

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