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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 5801745" data-attributes="member: 5143">Awww..thanks.  Where were you when in the other thread when people spent 4 days blasting me for being a horrible DM?  Ironically enough because I wasn't able to control my players and stop them from breaking the rules.Also, I'm going to assume you meant that and didn't say it simply because you know I read these message boards.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />As for the original topic.  I really wish I had made it to DDXP.  What I hear really does worry me.  I like a number of old school ideas that I think worked better than 3e or 4e, so I'm glad they are going back that direction for SOME things.  But, it really sounds like they might be going too far in that direction.  I agree with some other people here, it might be impossible to remove some old school assumptions simply by adding modules on top of the game.I don't have faith that the Vancian system can be properly balanced.  And it is core.  Although, to be fair to the designers, what I've heard so far has been the same ideas I was throwing around in my head to try to balance 3e before 4e was announced.Worse yet, I have a feeling that a modular game is going to cause MORE gaps in the community, rather than less.  With the groups splitting into 50 groups based on their own personal group of modules they like instead of the 4 or 5 groups that exist now based around editions.</blockquote>

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