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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9412516" data-attributes="member: 93670">JC:"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4mPDrylfo&t=411s" target="_blank">So with Divine smite in particular... We realized very early on that frankly the paladin was too powerful & that excess of power was largely because of how open ended the use of divine smite was.  When we originally designed divine smite it was under the hood basically a spell.   You're spending a spell slot on it  & it was sort of our idea of what if there was just a really simple spell option for the paladin who just wants to kick the @#$# out of things .  In the process we kind of outwitted ourselves by making this spell not a spell .  That then planted the seed of now the paladin who has multiple attacks is smiting on every single on of the attacks</a>"As a GM I am absolutely livid that wotc threw every gm under the bus of needing to deal with this problem for wotc without so much as a tweet or blog post somewhere to provide us support when players lash out in frustration citing "wotc did polls they know what is fun" & similar when having to fix  problems wotc knew about very early on but couldn't manage to admit.This kind of throwing GMs under the bus seems to be continued based on the second video where I did not hear words like "ask your GM if" or " if your gm allows it" with regards to the 2014 stuff (or anything else)... especially for a company that recently said the following at a shareholder conference "DMs are 20% of the audience but lions share of purchases"</blockquote>

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