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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 7667099" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Well, the interview was an interesting read. I took two things from it that make me pretty sad though:1. He's the reason why the only things I was highly enthusiastic about during the playtest were killed dead, and replaced by milquetoast-y alternatives that played it safe (with, IIRC, even less public review than the first round). The Sorcerer especially especially was a tragedy to lose. Yeah, yeah, "wasn't liked by the playtesters" (guess me and most every person I talked to didn't count as playtesters!) But Crawford has stepped up to the plate as the one who actually axed the whole class, barely a month after they introduced it, while other "problem" stuff (like Fighter and Rogue features) lingered for ages before finally being pulled. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />2. Again we see strident official rhetoric that 5e is "big tent," yet the support for 4e style play remains woefully inadequate. The long promised "tactical rules module" is either vaporware or totally insufficient for my needs (if, that is, the DMG stuff was supposed to be the whole of it). And I find it painfully "funny" to hear 5e's rules compared favorably to the clarity of 4e's. Perhaps it's just because I'm a bitter edition warrior partisan, but I find much of 5e to be ambiguous at best and sometimes frustratingly difficult. Stealth it's one example. The muddy distinction between "trading the Attack Action" and "making an attack" is another--in their effort to use fewer terms to describe things, they have created a situation where two different meanings (with very different consequences) are referenced by identical or nearly identical words. That is...about as far from "clarity" as you can get without using actually incorrect terms!I still wish them all the best and hold the slimmest margin of hope that the 4e support within 5e expands to more than a token gesture. Time will tell.</blockquote>

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