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<blockquote data-quote="Zuranthium" data-source="post: 9417399" data-attributes="member: 7046627">&quot;the flexibility of the new system goes beyond anything before&quot;&quot;it's easier to create a character than ever before and characters will be deeper than ever before&quot;&quot;any returning player will find more ways to imagine their character&quot;&quot;the backgrounds section is more beautiful than ever before&quot;&quot;backgrounds and species now interlock more than ever&quot;&quot;each background now has their own bonus points [pause for hammed up reaction shot, as if this is sooooo brilliant]&quot;&quot;the intention of design is remarkable and massively plotted out&quot;&quot;you're going to find more ways to evolve your character than ever before&quot;&quot;this is the largest handbook ever, it has been rebuilt from the ground up&quot;You act like corporations selling questionable products and using marketing to twist the narrative and maintain brand dominance is a good thing.In reality WotC is owned by Hasbro and all the management cares about is pushing product in the most superficially profitable way possible, not the artistic/substantive integrity of what they are creating. The goal is to keep costs low and follow a formula: fill books with as much fluff as possible, to create the illusion of a high page count being a quality-stuffed product, with just enough changes to make it seem like something everyone must have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zuranthium, post: 9417399, member: 7046627"] "the flexibility of the new system goes beyond anything before" "it's easier to create a character than ever before and characters will be deeper than ever before" "any returning player will find more ways to imagine their character" "the backgrounds section is more beautiful than ever before" "backgrounds and species now interlock more than ever" "each background now has their own bonus points [pause for hammed up reaction shot, as if this is sooooo brilliant]" "the intention of design is remarkable and massively plotted out" "you're going to find more ways to evolve your character than ever before" "this is the largest handbook ever, it has been rebuilt from the ground up" You act like corporations selling questionable products and using marketing to twist the narrative and maintain brand dominance is a good thing. In reality WotC is owned by Hasbro and all the management cares about is pushing product in the most superficially profitable way possible, not the artistic/substantive integrity of what they are creating. The goal is to keep costs low and follow a formula: fill books with as much fluff as possible, to create the illusion of a high page count being a quality-stuffed product, with just enough changes to make it seem like something everyone must have. [/QUOTE]

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