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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7957348" data-attributes="member: 6801845">&lt;RANT&gt;Just to reiterate something [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER] said.I agree that no game is perfect.&nbsp; It's just not possible.&nbsp; But what bugs me are the constant insults directed at the authors of 5E.From my perspective they had a monumental task.&nbsp; D&amp;D was flailing.&nbsp; The second edition in a row wasn't working and they had one last chance to get it right with another edition.&nbsp; I suspect that if 5E had been a failure, the department would have been shut down.Fortunately, they knocked it out of the park and now it's selling better than ever.&nbsp; Did they do everything like I would have done it?&nbsp; No, and thank goodness.So get over yourself when you say that the designers failed.&nbsp; Or that 5E is a mess because it's not more like 3.5 or 4.&nbsp; Both those versions saw plummeting sales a couple of years after release unlike 5E which is still growing year in and year out.&nbsp; The designers of 5E did an amazing job, they deserve accolades.&nbsp; They don't deserve armchair quarterbacks telling the world that they f'ed up because, thank goodness, they didn't implement the rules exactly how you would of done it.&lt;/RANT&gt;I'll now we return you to the never ending bickering about how 5E would have been so much better had it only been more like a previous version.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7957348, member: 6801845"] <RANT> Just to reiterate something [USER=6801228]@Chaosmancer[/USER] said. I agree that no game is perfect. It's just not possible. But what bugs me are the constant insults directed at the authors of 5E. From my perspective they had a monumental task. D&D was flailing. The second edition in a row wasn't working and they had one last chance to get it right with another edition. I suspect that if 5E had been a failure, the department would have been shut down. Fortunately, they knocked it out of the park and now it's selling better than ever. Did they do everything like I would have done it? No, and thank goodness. So get over yourself when you say that the designers failed. Or that 5E is a mess because it's not more like 3.5 or 4. Both those versions saw plummeting sales a couple of years after release unlike 5E which is still growing year in and year out. The designers of 5E did an amazing job, they deserve accolades. They don't deserve armchair quarterbacks telling the world that they f'ed up because, thank goodness, they didn't implement the rules exactly how you would of done it. </RANT> I'll now we return you to the never ending bickering about how 5E would have been so much better had it only been more like a previous version. [/QUOTE]

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