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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 5655730" data-attributes="member: 18182">Whether you like his ideas or not, I think you guys (and others) are seriously misinterpreting what Mearls is doing with this series of &quot;Legends and Lore&quot; articles, despite his repeated statements to the contrary.&nbsp; If I'm misreading the two folks I'm quoting above, then I apologize.1) The articles do not present a united design, but rather separate ideas.&nbsp; Some of Mearls ideas may play well together in some future hypothetical version of D&amp;D, others not so much.2) The articles are not showing us &quot;5th Edition&quot; or even the &quot;Mearls Edition&quot; of D&amp;D.&nbsp; Mearls is merely throwing out design ideas and looking at the feedback, for several reasons.&nbsp; A) He's a designer, he simply enjoys this kind of design brainstorming, B) He's looking for player feedback to improve his ideas and help him separate the wheat from the chaff, and C) He's also looking for what types of ideas will enflame the fanbase and what types of ideas we might be willing to embrace.Some of Mearls ideas just may show up in the eventual 5th Edition (or perhaps even a later edition), some will not.&nbsp; Some will in an &quot;evolved&quot; form.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 5655730, member: 18182"] Whether you like his ideas or not, I think you guys (and others) are seriously misinterpreting what Mearls is doing with this series of "Legends and Lore" articles, despite his repeated statements to the contrary. If I'm misreading the two folks I'm quoting above, then I apologize. 1) The articles do not present a united design, but rather separate ideas. Some of Mearls ideas may play well together in some future hypothetical version of D&D, others not so much. 2) The articles are not showing us "5th Edition" or even the "Mearls Edition" of D&D. Mearls is merely throwing out design ideas and looking at the feedback, for several reasons. A) He's a designer, he simply enjoys this kind of design brainstorming, B) He's looking for player feedback to improve his ideas and help him separate the wheat from the chaff, and C) He's also looking for what types of ideas will enflame the fanbase and what types of ideas we might be willing to embrace. Some of Mearls ideas just may show up in the eventual 5th Edition (or perhaps even a later edition), some will not. Some will in an "evolved" form. [/QUOTE]

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