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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5880315" data-attributes="member: 59506">He does portray the need for focus fire as a negative, and says that 4E is the edition that taught it's necessity to the fan base.  Boiled down, that's saying: Focus Fire is bad, and 4E is responsible for it. That may not what he intended to say, and that may not be what he meant, but it is how it reads to some...and not just because they are biased towards 4E (as I am not).  If I picked up on it, you can be certain that a good number of 4E fans picked up on it.  And that spells a problem for WotC. Such communication with the fans, communications with this kind of tone, is what turned off a lot of people to 4E even before it came out.  It was one of the contributing factors to the extreme devisiveness that WotC is trying to rectify with 5E.  Avoiding even the appearance of such things is paramount in communication with the fan base because of those past problems.  That may not seem fair, but it is simply a fact of life for WotC now. That blog entry came dangerously close to the type of things that caused problems in the run-up to 4E, and needs to be avoided as if one is walking through a mine field (which in essence, those on the design team are doing just that).  Forgetting those lessons, and not remaining vigilant about avoiding those problems could be catastrophic to 5E's chances.</blockquote>