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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 5970923" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I beg to differ.  This situation (a truly open playtest where the players have a significant hand in shaping the R & D and then polishing the final product) is unprecedented so the effect of being rigid, unyielding, uncompromising and exclusionary and someone subsequently calling an unyielding, uncompromising, exclusionary attitude "poison" is in its genesis.  Maybe in 30 years (if our hobby lasts it, the owners of DnD continue an open playtest, and the sides remain polarized) will you know if your hypothesis is true.  Nonetheless, I'm fairly sure you're indicting the existence of the egg that sprang forth from the chicken without extending the same courtesy to the chicken that birthed it.</blockquote>