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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 3826690" data-attributes="member: 40359">Wow, and since Gary Gygax has been secretly operating the MonteBot for a couple decades does that mean Gygax is the evil mastermind behind 4e? And to what nefarious purpose?!!Personally, I think these guys can come up with their own ideas. Mike Mearls was writing <a href="http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=378" target="_blank">shelf fulls</a> of d20 material before he worked with Monte on... what a half dozen books (plus a few adventures for the website)?Looking at his list of credits, it looks like AEG has more secret influence at WotC than Monte. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />These are coincidences from different and talented people trying to solve the same problems. Spell level = class level isn't exactly some bizarre concept only one person could come up with (in fact, I've found quite a few people new to the game assume that until they are told that you have to be "9th level to cast 5th level spells"). Plus realizing the spellcasters typically run out of anything fun to do because of Vancian casting isn't a newly discovered problem only Monte could realize. Just because both WotC and Monte's homebrew are addressing it doesn't mean they are in cohoots or even have remotely similar solutions. I really wish Monte was still working in the RPG realm as well, but positing conspiracies and hidden influences isn't going to make it happen. That's just silly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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