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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7704749" data-attributes="member: 996">There's an emotional and practical difference between opt-in optional and opt-out optional.  Feats, MCing, UA, SCAG and all future content is opt-in optional.  PH content not called out as optional is opt-out optional.  It's very easy to find a game that uses op-out optional content, not so hard to find one that that excludes some or all opt-in optional content, harder to find one that includes specific opt-in optional content and devilishly hard to find one that excludes opt-out optional content, let alone includes specific unofficial content.Yes it was, and its succeed to no small extent, being ideal for fans of 2e, evocative of even early editions, and readily adaptable to most expectations of 3e fans.The rationale for 5e smacked of similar concerns.  It was so tragic and unjust that 4e supposedly excluded certain playstyles that we just had to have an all-inclusive new edition.  Sure, the context of the edition war was trivial compared to RL, but the issues were and are similar in kind, none the less.The sales of D&D are so trivial compared to those of it's other properties that WotC, were they to follow the advice in your screed, would have dropped D&D entirely a decade ago.   As RPG fans we /are/ a tiny minority.</blockquote>