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Mike Mearls "Invented The Baked Potato" in Xanathar's Guide With The Cleric Forge Domain
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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7725711" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>While I understand your point and can accept it to a certain extent... there *is* a difference we can talk about here. Nobody HAD to fill out those surveys. And indeed even if they did, they didn't HAVE to respond with any domain selection. It wasn't as though they were forced to select one of the options (even if those were the only options they were given.)</p><p></p><p>People chose to fill out the cleric domain survey, and they chose to respond overwhelmingly positively towards the Forge cleric. Mike could have easily just have said "Well, we got some responses in the survey and of the cleric domains we had in the UA playtest, it was the most liked." And he could have gone on to say "There were some things people liked, but other parts that they felt needed something more." THAT would be much more of a wishy-washy response. It'd be more fair with that kind of response to suppose that perhaps the Forge domain wasn't overwhelmingly favored or favorable.</p><p></p><p>But the fact that he said that the Forge domain was overwhelmingly positive and that it pretty much did exactly what people thought and felt the domain should do... can make us believe that it wasn't a "best of the worst" situation, but indeed that a lot of people DID like it and want to see it added and included.</p><p></p><p>But I mean... if you'd rather take your own memory of people's responses here on ENWorld of how they felt about the Forge domain when the UA was released over the statements made by Mike about it in the video... go right ahead. No skin off my nose, and besides which it doesn't matter anyway. The Forge domain is appearing in the book regardless so it's not like any of our opinions/memories matter at this point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7725711, member: 7006"] While I understand your point and can accept it to a certain extent... there *is* a difference we can talk about here. Nobody HAD to fill out those surveys. And indeed even if they did, they didn't HAVE to respond with any domain selection. It wasn't as though they were forced to select one of the options (even if those were the only options they were given.) People chose to fill out the cleric domain survey, and they chose to respond overwhelmingly positively towards the Forge cleric. Mike could have easily just have said "Well, we got some responses in the survey and of the cleric domains we had in the UA playtest, it was the most liked." And he could have gone on to say "There were some things people liked, but other parts that they felt needed something more." THAT would be much more of a wishy-washy response. It'd be more fair with that kind of response to suppose that perhaps the Forge domain wasn't overwhelmingly favored or favorable. But the fact that he said that the Forge domain was overwhelmingly positive and that it pretty much did exactly what people thought and felt the domain should do... can make us believe that it wasn't a "best of the worst" situation, but indeed that a lot of people DID like it and want to see it added and included. But I mean... if you'd rather take your own memory of people's responses here on ENWorld of how they felt about the Forge domain when the UA was released over the statements made by Mike about it in the video... go right ahead. No skin off my nose, and besides which it doesn't matter anyway. The Forge domain is appearing in the book regardless so it's not like any of our opinions/memories matter at this point. [/QUOTE]
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