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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9561773" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Sure, it may be annoying. But I do hesitate to state definitively that copying 2014 would have been &quot;no problem at all.&quot; Because they didn't leave it in. And if there wasn't a good reason, you are essentially arguing &quot;The designers decided to make the game worse for the lulz of it&quot; which is incredibly uncharitable. What was the reason? I don't know. I wasn't at the designer meeting when they made that decision. But they did have a reason, even if it was as pedestrian as &quot;the guy who would be typing and spellchecking that is better used on this other part of the project, and this isn't vital information to put in the book&quot;Never said there was anything wrong with having an explanation. Said that the sky isn't falling and the sun isn't consuming the earth just because they didn't give you a default explanation. A minor annoyance? Sure. A dire problem? Not even close.Not listing it as gear to be picked up makes it clearly a DM choice. Many people will run gear as an absolute. &quot;It says they get this, so this is what they get&quot;. This way, it is a choice. If you want the PCs to have sticky shields? Go for it. But it isn't the default option.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9561773, member: 6801228"] Sure, it may be annoying. But I do hesitate to state definitively that copying 2014 would have been "no problem at all." Because they didn't leave it in. And if there wasn't a good reason, you are essentially arguing "The designers decided to make the game worse for the lulz of it" which is incredibly uncharitable. What was the reason? I don't know. I wasn't at the designer meeting when they made that decision. But they did have a reason, even if it was as pedestrian as "the guy who would be typing and spellchecking that is better used on this other part of the project, and this isn't vital information to put in the book" Never said there was anything wrong with having an explanation. Said that the sky isn't falling and the sun isn't consuming the earth just because they didn't give you a default explanation. A minor annoyance? Sure. A dire problem? Not even close. Not listing it as gear to be picked up makes it clearly a DM choice. Many people will run gear as an absolute. "It says they get this, so this is what they get". This way, it is a choice. If you want the PCs to have sticky shields? Go for it. But it isn't the default option. [/QUOTE]

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