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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8295172" data-attributes="member: 93670">There lies the problem in that bolded bit.&nbsp; It would be an absurd claim to suggest that players do not massively outnumber GMs. Even if you count tables where some of the players sometimes GM or have GM'd before&nbsp; it's still going to be an avalanche of what players want completely dominating any differences from&nbsp; DM PoV.&nbsp; It was not until recently that wotc even started bothering to ask if someone is a dm &amp; what percentage they are a dm/player.&nbsp; Prior to that it was not even a datapoint to consider if there was statistically different leanings about something between players &amp; those who DM more than a given percentage.&nbsp; Combine that with the 70% rule and you could have topics where a hypothetical 100% of DMs&nbsp; feel strongly in one direction while even a mere majority* of players are mildly in favor of the other direction and that hypothetical unified DM position would be completely&nbsp; shut out from consideration under the 70% rule.Also you misrepresent the other side by panning everything as something that would slow down or somehow unwind wotc's &quot;objective&quot; of faster combat.&nbsp; Wotc's own decision to simplify combat down to little more than a damage die with a near certain hitrate resulted in everything being a giant bag of HP that slows combat. Some of these changes allow room for changing the design defect that unquestionably contradicts with that goal of &quot;faster combat&quot;.likely even just some&nbsp; plurality</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8295172, member: 93670"] There lies the problem in that bolded bit. It would be an absurd claim to suggest that players do not massively outnumber GMs. Even if you count tables where some of the players sometimes GM or have GM'd before it's still going to be an avalanche of what players want completely dominating any differences from DM PoV. It was not until recently that wotc even started bothering to ask if someone is a dm & what percentage they are a dm/player. Prior to that it was not even a datapoint to consider if there was statistically different leanings about something between players & those who DM more than a given percentage. Combine that with the 70% rule and you could have topics where a hypothetical 100% of DMs feel strongly in one direction while even a mere majority* of players are mildly in favor of the other direction and that hypothetical unified DM position would be completely shut out from consideration under the 70% rule. Also you misrepresent the other side by panning everything as something that would slow down or somehow unwind wotc's "objective" of faster combat. Wotc's own decision to simplify combat down to little more than a damage die with a near certain hitrate resulted in everything being a giant bag of HP that slows combat. Some of these changes allow room for changing the design defect that unquestionably contradicts with that goal of "faster combat". likely even just some plurality [/QUOTE]

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