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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 8460811" data-attributes="member: 23">I should start by saying that I appreciate your posts because you often have substantive issues and points - they are worth engaging with, there is material here, it's not just fluff.  I am stating this because sometimes this engagement means I will disagree with you, which may have given the impression that I find your posts rubbish or somesuch.  And I completely agree with you that there ARE objective statements can make about a game, it's not just about tastes - some systems DO work better than others.   I also agree with you that allowing someone to max up a score (maybe to make a "diplomancer"?) easily is bad design, and that this makes 4e worse than 2e.However, the fact that doing so necessitates a very significant XP improvement, and while you are doing this your PC is not improving in other things that could help them survive... that's not trivial is it?  So your conclusion is still sound (the firm limits of 2e were a good thing!), but it's less of a problem than you made it sound to be.  So as a reader who hasn't done a lot of playtesting of 4e, when I see things like this, it causes my confidence in your conclusions to waiver a bit, because it makes you seem less objective.  You also don't respond well to criticism of your analysis.  I think "is this trivial or not" to be a substantive point, but instead you see it as "my communication is perceived by people that can't cope if their favorite games are shown to possess flaws", which sounds like a dodge.You probably are thinking "what a nitpicking-pedant, who is he to criticize my posting style, he's annoying!".  And yeah, a little?  My communication style isn't perfect either.  Nobody is - including yours.  anyway, all this to say I hope we can continue discussing this - I'm about to destroy advantage <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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