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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8285510" data-attributes="member: 93670">I'm not sure I'd agree with you that mere observation of magpieism is judgment.  On 9/42020 levelup previews a tightly linked origin/heritage+background but it's too late to update the still largely unrevealed  loosening of 5e's races due to go out in tcoe a month later with its one custom linage& rules for tweaking exsting races in november.. January 2021 gothic lineages UA goes out& suddenly for the first time it's lineages. Someone from paizo makes a blog post about her daughter being a fan of rabbits where a rabbitfolk race is written up,  wotc releases a rabbitfolk race.  the 5e Wotc does not have  a record of bold new stuff that makes the occasional coincidental similarity look like mere coincidence.  Within the next week we  are likely to see <a href="http://www.dyskami.ca/anime5e.html" target="_blank">anime5e</a> (<a href="http://dyskami.ca/downloads/anime_5e_table_of_contents.pdf" target="_blank">ToC</a>) with quite a few new mechanical elements, likely wyvern's S<a href="https://wyverngaming.com/" target="_blank">GP</a> that also has quite a few changes  within the next couple months it looks, & then <a href="https://www.levelup5e.com/" target="_blank">levelup </a>itself around october with its own new spins on things.Parallel development is a thing yes, but there are only so many times it can happen before people start using other terms like follow copy & knock off.Someone is definitely leading the way on making rules to fit different playstyles, but it's obviously not wotc this time.  Instead wotc has been focused on adventures & settings without much in the way of mechanics beyond a few new race/lineage class feat spell & monster additions.   That's a mere observation rather than judgement.  Wotc is laser focused on what is acceptable or desired by 35 million of the 50 million players they claim to have, which is fine; but the remaining 15 million aren't any more monolithic than the 35.... We saw how it worked with pathfinder when someone else targeted a large plurality of d&d players that wotc was ignoring.  Difference being those three spent covid getting ready & polishing their forks while wotc's big innovation to 5e was yet another set of level zero start type rules to choose from.</blockquote>

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