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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5366567" data-attributes="member: 7006">I've never been "scared" of anything WotC has done (or TSR for that matter.)I've never been "annoyed" or "disappointed" by anything WotC has done, because I feel both of those adjectives are too strong emotionally to actually represent how I felt.  What's a good word for a much weaker and shorter period of time feeling of annoyance?  "Peeved"?  "Ruffled"?  "Irked"?I felt a bit "peeved" when I heard about the creative decision of having both a "warlord" and "warlock" in the first PH.  And at the time I said to myself that it wasn't as creative a decision as I would have liked to have seen made... and that I was going to instead call the warlord a "marshal" or a "commander" when I finally played the game that included that class.And that idea lasted all of twenty minutes once I started my first campaign and one of my players selected a warlord and I realized just how inconsequential a term it was going to be.  So much so that when the "warden" was announced for PHII (OMG!  A third "war" named class!), I didn't even bat an eye.And that's pretty much how all my reactions have been to anything of a creative nature (D&D or otherwise).  I have a natural, gut, emotional reaction to something... then my rational brain takes over and asks whether it really matters enough to take the time and energy to not only remain bothered by it, but also be willing to rework said thing so that it no longer bothers me?  Basically, my brains asks "Does you really care?"  And in only a very few cases have I ever reached that point to say "Yes".</blockquote>

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