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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8200510" data-attributes="member: 7016699">I don't disagree that there is a point to which quality is less subjective, but past a threshold of competence it really does come to a matter of taste/preference. If you know fiction or food or music, you can tell when a professionally competent writer or cook or performer is just not to your taste, and when they're just bad at what they're doing.I don't think there are precise metrics for the sorts of things people talk about on these boards--it might be possible to say accurately that one game has more [feature] than another, but I don't know of any real way to quantify it. I think this makes the metallurgical metaphor deployed earlier in the thread ... non applicable, and probably weak.Are there compromises in D&amp;D 5E? Yeah, but given they were making a concerted effort to collect the best game elements (and fan bases) of the various prior editions that's not surprising. I think they did a pretty good job, but other people have other opinions. I'm running 5E by choice, not because D&amp;D is a default I can't get past.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8200510, member: 7016699"] I don't disagree that there is a point to which quality is less subjective, but past a threshold of competence it really does come to a matter of taste/preference. If you know fiction or food or music, you can tell when a professionally competent writer or cook or performer is just not to your taste, and when they're just bad at what they're doing. I don't think there are precise metrics for the sorts of things people talk about on these boards--it might be possible to say accurately that one game has more [feature] than another, but I don't know of any real way to quantify it. I think this makes the metallurgical metaphor deployed earlier in the thread ... non applicable, and probably weak. Are there compromises in D&D 5E? Yeah, but given they were making a concerted effort to collect the best game elements (and fan bases) of the various prior editions that's not surprising. I think they did a pretty good job, but other people have other opinions. I'm running 5E by choice, not because D&D is a default I can't get past. [/QUOTE]

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