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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7881297" data-attributes="member: 6857506">Ok, when you put it that way, I disagree.  To me, it appears that in general WotC believe they are putting out a product that provides a good experience out of the box.  As others have mentioned, that explicitly includes the notion that DMs will supply part of the rule set for the game via rulings to cover situations that are deliberately left uncovered by the written rules.  It does not seem to me that at the conceptual level that can be counted as a flaw, since the written rules can't cover every situation.That said, there definitely are things about many WotC products that I see as deficiencies.  Although there are some other categories of issues, most of these are instances in which the authors seem to have been unable to express their intent clearly. This leads to situations in which I really don't care a lot how something works, I don't have any interest in tweaking, fixing, or modding it, but I have to put in effort to deciding how it works anyway.  I find that I resent that.The WotC D&D leads seem to be fine designers.  Sure they occasionally produce things that could be better designed, but that happens to everyone.  I just wish that they were, or had hired, some top-notch writers.</blockquote>