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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6210463" data-attributes="member: 92511">Yes, indeed. I am quite the fantasy fascist....and I am really pretty sick of hearing about &quot;one true wayism&quot; at every blessed mention of offering an OPTION!Like it or not, D&amp;D books are not made with unlimited resources and page count.Like it or not, D&amp;D needs to have a simple &quot;buy in&quot; if they hope to attract new players. That means LIMITED default options to make things fast and easy to get started. Giving someone a book and saying &quot;Here, pick any of these 150 things...&quot; and that's just the first &quot;core&quot; book. There'll be all these other supplements with hundreds of other options coming for you as well [assuming a modicum of success and desire of WotC to continue producing material]!Like it or not, and while this might sound like the above it's actually a separate issue, a &quot;default&quot; is necessary. Which means, yes, the text phrases things as &quot;this is how to do this&quot;...or the seemingly popularly preferred, &quot;this is one way to do this...&quot; with, then, sidebars or appendices or just a separate paragraph or sentence at the end saying &quot;but you can do it this other way if you want to try.&quot;Like it or not, D&amp;D is a brand and business, in addition to a &quot;feel&quot; and game of imagination, a lovely feel and game of imagination which I enjoy very much, but they need to make the tough calls for the good of the brand and the business. Allowing for every possible corner preference and taste, as much as they can do optionally, is not conducive to promoting its success of either brand or business.&nbsp;So in fact, all whining and winging and illusions of player entitlement accepted. YES, all hail the necessity of an initial, simple, clear, concise, &quot;default&quot;, &quot;core&quot; One True Way...with lots of optional things that are available to tack on. Yes. I happily accept your unfettered loyalty. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6210463, member: 92511"] Yes, indeed. I am quite the fantasy fascist. ...and I am really pretty sick of hearing about "one true wayism" at every blessed mention of offering an OPTION! Like it or not, D&D books are not made with unlimited resources and page count. Like it or not, D&D needs to have a simple "buy in" if they hope to attract new players. That means LIMITED default options to make things fast and easy to get started. Giving someone a book and saying "Here, pick any of these 150 things..." and that's just the first "core" book. There'll be all these other supplements with hundreds of other options coming for you as well [assuming a modicum of success and desire of WotC to continue producing material]! Like it or not, and while this might sound like the above it's actually a separate issue, a "default" is necessary. Which means, yes, the text phrases things as "this is how to do this"...or the seemingly popularly preferred, "this is [B][I]one way [/I][/B]to do this..." with, then, sidebars or appendices or just a separate paragraph or sentence at the end saying "but you can do it this other way if you want to try." Like it or not, D&D is a brand and business, in addition to a "feel" and game of imagination, a lovely feel and game of imagination which I enjoy very much, but they need to make the tough calls for the good of the brand and the business. Allowing for every possible corner preference and taste, as much as they can do optionally, is not conducive to promoting its success of either brand or business. So in fact, all whining and winging and illusions of player entitlement accepted. YES, all hail the necessity of an initial, simple, clear, concise, "default", "core" One True Way...with lots of optional things that are available to tack on. Yes. I happily accept your unfettered loyalty. :) [/QUOTE]

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