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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8522477" data-attributes="member: 6790260">So, the only things that should be published are the ones your table needs?Because that's the implication of what you're saying here--that WotC should only publish things for your needs, not anyone else's. I know that the more probable intent of your statement is "they should only make things that most people need," but...well, there's some big problems with that, even if I grant you that charitable reading.The first is the word "need." Properly speaking, nobody ever needs anything. Necessity is a bad standard for leisure-time activities. We don't, for example, determine meal plans purely based on what humans need for nutrition, otherwise we'd all be eating standardized nutrient supplements. Instead, we make meal plans based on what we want, which includes things like varying flavors or different sources of protein, avoiding disliked flavors, that sort of thing.Second, if the only official provisions are the ones generically needed....then they're going to need to be generic, and that's exactly what people are complaining about now. And what I called out earlier with the Morton's Fork: if a class is specific, it shouldn't be offered because then a more general class can be offered instead; if a class is general, well then it should be folded into whatever the most-similar and more-traditional class is, since there's no need for two generalists that cover the same space. Why should WotC always avoid options that are maybe a little more specific than others? That's what Paladin is, a rather specific archetype, but it's one a lot of people like, so it's uncommon to hear requests for its removal. (You still do, of course, because reductionism uber alles is a thing, but it's not as common a target in 5e as Sorcerer and/or Warlock.)Third, why does the publication of new classes your table doesn't need negatively affect you? You seem to be making rather a strong statement here, albeit implicitly, that creating rules elements that some peple (perhaps a majority) don't need actually worsens your/their gaming experience. That's a bit surprising, and I'd like to know how and why that happens.</blockquote>

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