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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8220769" data-attributes="member: 18">It was indeed unnecessary, though, frankly, the FR could easily stand having Dragonborn added - but they should have come through a portral or arrived in a flying fortress or something. Not just deleted several parts of the FR for nebulous reasons.However the second claim is only half-true. Yes, it's true that the actual, genuine, real, in-the-game mechanics of 4E didn't do it significant reputational harm, but misunderstandings about them, or factually inaccurate but meme-y ideas about them did it quite a lot of reputational damage (as did the refusal of people to accept the facts). The biggest damage though was done by the one-two punch of the initial marketing, which was so far beyond merely "tone-deaf" as to be into the realms of "accidental Simpsons-style parody" and insulting to just about everyone (including people who wanted what 4E was doing!), and getting rid of the OGL, which was a demented slap in the face to the 3PPs who not only helped 3.XE to prosper, but also had become kind of a big deal (particularly Paizo).So I guess I'm saying, yeah the FR changes didn't help, but that's a very low bar you have there. They weren't a major part of the problem.On topic, Wyatt being back seems like generally a good thing, given his previous work.</blockquote>