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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9583983" data-attributes="member: 18">Based on Mearls' design history I'm afraid this is pure &quot;cope&quot;/&quot;the grass is greener&quot;/&quot;stuff I made up in my head is better than real stuff&quot;.The 2024 rules might not have the same exact issues they have, but they'd have a bunch of other, different painful issues instead. Mearls was where the buck stopped for an awful lot of 2024's design mistakes or &quot;issues&quot; or however you want to describe them, and some of 4E's most significant design mistakes too (even though he didn't get on board there until late).So think 2024 wouldn't be in the &quot;current state&quot; just is really &quot;cope&quot;. The odds are it would be in an equally questionable (or worse) state, just a different one.As is all the hilarious nonsense other people are posting about him &quot;voluntarily leaving&quot; D&amp;D because he &quot;didn't like the way it was going&quot;, which just happened to coincide with a scandal he was directly involved in and acted unprofessionally in. That's a big part of the problem here - he wasn't fired - but he should have been - or at least censured. Any normal person would have been. And that's assuming he didn't hand over the emails - but the fact that he inserted himself into the situation, rather than passing this one to legal and HR is demented. It's not responsible, it's not professional, and his words at the time weren't those things either.It's also retcon/revisionism, because initially he didn't even leave D&amp;D, he just got moved on to being in charge of the &quot;multimedia&quot;/IP side of things before sometime later being moved on to MtG, and this was all after he mysteriously vanished.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9583983, member: 18"] Based on Mearls' design history I'm afraid this is pure "cope"/"the grass is greener"/"stuff I made up in my head is better than real stuff". The 2024 rules might not have the same exact issues they have, but they'd have a bunch of other, different painful issues instead. Mearls was where the buck stopped for an awful lot of 2024's design mistakes or "issues" or however you want to describe them, and some of 4E's most significant design mistakes too (even though he didn't get on board there until late). So think 2024 wouldn't be in the "current state" just is really "cope". The odds are it would be in an equally questionable (or worse) state, just a different one. As is all the hilarious nonsense other people are posting about him "voluntarily leaving" D&D because he "didn't like the way it was going", which [I]just happened[/I] to coincide with a scandal he was directly involved in and acted unprofessionally in. That's a big part of the problem here - he wasn't fired - but he [I]should have been [/I]- or at least censured. Any normal person would have been. And that's assuming he didn't hand over the emails - but the fact that he inserted himself into the situation, rather than passing this one to legal and HR is demented. It's not responsible, it's not professional, and his words at the time weren't those things either. It's also retcon/revisionism, because initially he didn't even leave D&D, he just got moved on to being in charge of the "multimedia"/IP side of things before sometime later being moved on to MtG, and this was all after he mysteriously vanished. [/QUOTE]

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