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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5469844" data-attributes="member: 73683">Absolutely.I do not have the mountain-like patience of those managing the D&D brand. Were I in their position, I would focus my efforts wholly on trying to bolster the brand loyalty of those who are cool with the direction I'm heading in, while also attempting to court new blood that has a similar appreciation. I would not waste time trying to mend imagined bridges with fans who are (in my opinion) not really great fans to have in the first place. A fan who throws up his arms in frustration when you try to do something new and slightly innovative, especially in an extremely optional way (see: Fortune Cards) is not a great fan to have. You want fans who are passionate but tolerant of change, who are accepting of the basic principle that things will not always work out exactly how they want to, and who will not spend years deriding you online after they've basically rage-quit your brand.I'm not saying that WotC hasn't made mistakes. They have. They know it. You know it. I know it. It happens. And when it does, they are often sheepish in their apologies over it. But when it does, there are some fans who say "Whatever," and go on living their lives and enjoying the game, conscious of the fact that, frankly, whatever PR blunder WotC made this time is tiny potatoes, and is, at most, an inconvenience that might force them to make minor changes to how they enjoy a small portion of their leisure time. And there are other fans who do not say "Whatever," but instead decide that these changes are, in fact, worth being upset over. Now, whether or not they are worth being upset over is subjective and really depends on how critical you see the stability of your hobby to the continued proper functioning of the universe. But the fact remains that while I and Mearls seem to agree on a number of things, he feels that it's worth making an effort to at least offer an olive branch to the latter group of fans. I'm not so sure that I do.I hope that made things clearer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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