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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 7674349" data-attributes="member: 5834">So what? It is in fact a major question. If you don't like 5E or Pathfinder and don't play them, then you have no vested interest in their success and a more than likely interest in their failure insofar as you can actually affect dissent. Same as occurred with people that don't like 4E when it was released. So a guy that doesn't like something spending his time on a 5E forum (a game he doesn't like) making negative posts might very well...and with good reason...be viewed as pushing a campaign of negative attacks on the game system he doesn't like. A guy that isn't focused on negative attacks and has an edition of D&D he likes spends his time talking about that game system with players that like the same system he likes. I was in a similar situation when 4E released. I tried it, didn't like it, and spent time complaining about it because 4E felt shoved down my throat by a company telling me they didn't care what a thirty year D&D player liked. I stuck around complaining for a long time sowing dissent in a similar fashion to yourself using negative attacks veiled as well-reasoned debate to vent my dislike of the new version of D&D. Eventually, I found Pathfinder which gave me a preferred version of D&D with a different name. I hung out with other people that preferred what I preferred. I found that much more to my liking.Maybe you're in the early stages of disappointment and venting. It's pretty obvious at this point you are out to paint WotC and 5E in a negative manner. If you don't have a vested interest in the success of 5E as in you are playing it and planning to support it by purchasing new products, I'd like to know so I don't waste my time discussing the game with you. It's a waste of time for someone that doesn't like a game or plan to play it to spend time on a forum where that game is being discussed by fans as they will never be of like mind and will only cause foolish debates as someone that dislikes 5E refuses to acknowledge its successes and the fans refuse to acknowledge any weaknesses. I'd advise you as a person in a similar position in 4E not to waste your time attempting negative debate of a game you don't plan to play. Your time would be more productively spent playing and discussing an edition of D&D you like than attempting to sow the seeds of dissent on a forum of 5E fans. At this point you seem to be a person that doesn't like 5E and your posts sound like unsupported and speculative criticism of 5E with the sole intent painting a negative picture of a rather positive one. I have no idea why you believe WotC wouldn't move carefully to ensure a carefully plotted and successful launch of a new game system intended to retake the top TTRPG slot wouldn't require slow and careful management. You seem to be confusing WotC and Mearls moving slow with giving up on TTRPG. Why would Mearls give up on something he has spent years of his life planning? 5E is four years or more of Mearls life? He helped write the rules, carefully play-tested them over years using a painstaking survey and playtesting process, and you expect him and the D&D team to suddenly rush things? Pretty odd viewpoint. If this is coming from a person that doesn't even like 5E, I can only say caveat emptor to anyone that responds to your criticisms.It's pretty obvious why Mearls is doing things the way he is doing them. He has been nothing but slow and careful since he took over as head guy overseeing TTRPG D&D. Why do you expect him to change now?</blockquote>

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