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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 5780097" data-attributes="member: 5142">I am not rejecting anything. You are. Learning from D&D's past does not mean that WotC should ignore improvements made in 4E or pretend that everything about 4E was wrong or that WotC should basically just redesign everything to be D&D 3.75 to cater to your preferences. Where does D&D Next's design goals say that the game is being designed to appeal strictly to players of 1-3e? (Let me be clear, I do not play 4E, nor do I particularly care for Pathfinder and 3.5. After extended play of these systems, I think all of these systems have a number of weak points that do not entirely meet my expectations of a more simplified and flexible system. D&D Next, if the Legends & Lore articles and D&D Next design goals are any indication, has the potential of getting much closer to my preferences.) Do you honestly think that Save-or-Die is the only problem people had with 4E? Do you honestly think that if 3.5 was the same but did not have Save-or-Die that it would have lost as many people as 4E? Of course not. It's absurd to think that. So why make a barb that Save-or-Die is somehow mandatory for D&D Next as if it was responsible for 4E's failures? My goal is a much bigger fan base than 4E had as well, which means to keep to D&D Next's stated design goals: D&D Next is bigger than strictly your preferences, as it is bigger than mine. BryonD: No one likes being told that there is only one right way to play guitar, and that includes with Save-or-Die. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Tell me how absolutism about Save-or-Die and my advocating for a lethality dials approach compares with these design goals? This is the absolute language to which I object. This strikes me as just "true Scotsman," in which "no true Medusa would not instantly turn victims into stone and not have Save-or-Die mechanics." Why can't my Medusa not if I so deem it for my campaign? Why are you telling people that thrash metal is the only correct way to play guitar? Your language is antithetical to the stated design goals, and that is why I object to your absolute language, because I find it every bit as antithetical to D&D Next's design goals as the complete absence of Save-or-Die mechanics. It's exclusionary and not inclusionary.</blockquote>

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