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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sage Genesis" data-source="post: 6249293" data-attributes="member: 6706099">I'm not sure where you're going with this but I'll answer just the same.It's not a simple matter of "like" or "dislike" of the game. I already like a lot of what I've seen of Next. I like the ease of character creation. I like some of the class abilities. I like backgrounds. And so on. It's quite rare for me to like or dislike the entirety of a game, the issue is more whether overall I like enough elements for me to justify a purchase. Similarly, I also dislike certain elements of 4e that I think could've been handled better on launch or even still need to be handled better today. It's just that overall I like enough elements to buy and play it.What the odds are of me liking enough of 5e/Next? I rightly don't know. Maybe around 50-50, but even if it falls to the side of "no purchase", that doesn't have to mean I dislike the entire thing. I expect to still like some elements.My current annoyance is not so much with the elements of the game I might dislike, though. I dislike some comments and behavior of the development team. I dislike the way modularity is put forth as a grand solution to many ills even though we haven't seen any kind of real modularity yet. Some options and houserule potential, but if that qualifies as "modularity" then a product like Unearthed Arcana is also "modularity". And the d20 days with all its 3rd party supplements and compatibilities would have been much more modular than anything Next is doing.I should also clarify that I think the dev's edition warrior tendencies are not so much a result of malice and more of marketing. The launch of 4e is pretty infamous because a lot of 3e fans felt that WotC was mocking their beloved game, talking trash about it in order to sell them on the new edition. There was backlash over that and I see the current talks as an attempt to do the same again, just more subtly to prevent as much backlash. Talking garbage about warlords shouting hands back on is in my view meant as an appeal to people who intensely dislike 4e. That doesn't mean WotC doesn't understand how 4e healing actually is supposed work, they're just repeating the sales tactic of before in a way that makes it less easy to call them on it.</blockquote>

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