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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9057948" data-attributes="member: 93670">There's a couple problems with that.&nbsp; Firstly is the general size and the complexity of 2014-&gt;oacket6 vrs packet3/4/5 -&gt;packet 6 making color coding too complicated in something this large.&nbsp; Secondly is the more significant fact that there's too many regressions &amp; pointless deliberate miss change for the sake of saying something was done both across the rules glossary as well as the class changes to justify the effort.&nbsp; Even the classes in this packet have do nothing changes like monk having some changes to improve their staying power relative to long rest classes as crawford described in the recent video while remaining a short rest class that leans on the GM to balance it at the table for wotc.Using an analogy by [USER=7635]@Remathilis[/USER] from another thread &quot;WotC walked into the living room, decided that ugly half-wall between it and the kitchen needed to go, took all the furniture out of the room, and then, they just decided to paint the wall and put everything back. If they hadn't made a show about removing the half-wall in the first place, most people wouldn't have thought it was an option. Now I'm not overly mad: I like the changes they are making. But the fact they are backpedaling on so many design ideas at this point in design doesn't tell me this was based on player feedback as much as a desire to make sure this new PHB doesn't split the fanbase.&quot;... the coat of paint represented in packet6 is such a small change that it's barely shifting a single shade on the color strip.&nbsp; That's hard to justify the effort.Also... &quot;need attention&quot;?&nbsp; From who?&nbsp; who's listening?&nbsp; Wotc has made it clear that this is going to be 5.001 and that they are stretching for that.&nbsp; Even though they admitted in their investor thing a while back that DMs are a 20% who<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/hasbro-bets-big-on-d-d.693722/#post-8852326" target="_blank"> represent the lion's share of purchases</a> not a single survey for 2024 has asked if responders are GMs or what percentage of their game time is as a GM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9057948, member: 93670"] There's a couple problems with that. Firstly is the general size and the complexity of 2014->oacket6 vrs packet3/4/5 ->packet 6 making color coding too complicated in something this large. Secondly is the more significant fact that there's too many regressions & pointless deliberate miss change for the sake of saying something was done both across the rules glossary as well as the class changes to justify the effort. Even the classes in this packet have do nothing changes like monk having some changes to improve their staying power relative to long rest classes as crawford described in the recent video while remaining a short rest class that leans on the GM to balance it at the table for wotc. Using an analogy by [USER=7635]@Remathilis[/USER] from another thread "[I]WotC walked into the living room, decided that ugly half-wall between it and the kitchen needed to go, took all the furniture out of the room,[B] and then, they just decided to paint the wall and put everything back[/B]. If they hadn't made a show about removing the half-wall in the first place, most people wouldn't have thought it was an option. Now I'm not overly mad: I like the changes they are making. But the fact they are backpedaling on so many design ideas at this point in design doesn't tell me this was based on player feedback as much as a desire to make sure this new PHB doesn't split the fanbase.[/I]"... the coat of paint represented in packet6 is such a small change that it's barely shifting a single shade on the color strip. That's hard to justify the effort. Also... "need attention"? From who? who's listening? Wotc has made it clear that this is going to be 5.001 and that they are stretching for that. Even though they admitted in their investor thing a while back that DMs are a 20% who[URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/hasbro-bets-big-on-d-d.693722/#post-8852326'] represent the lion's share of purchases[/URL] not a single survey for 2024 has asked if responders are GMs or what percentage of their game time is as a GM. [/QUOTE]

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