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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9267978" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Ah, gotta love the CR -1 Straw Golem. Because yes it was totally something so blindingly obvious and perfectly edition specific that no one could ever confuse them. Definitely not something like asking a question about &quot;grappling&quot; or how &quot;opportunity attacks&quot; work or how &quot;Barbarian rage&quot; works when those things have been radically different between editions. Nope, 110% of the time it's something even a simpleton could correctly identify the origin of on sight. Couldn't possibly be any of the myriad things that have similar names or similar concepts but significantly divergent expression!I'm not hyperbolizing the difference. I'm mocking WotC's song and dance.I love posts like this, because they're condescending and snide about a disagreement the poster started and yet they actually agree on the claims in dispute.I literally never said it was a new edition. I have said, repeatedly and consistently, that it is a revision or update to the existing one. My criticism, and in this case my sarcasm, has always been that WotC fears either backlash or confusion from accurately calling it a revision, and thus they will not actually call it what it is. They will do a ridiculous song and dance to pretend that nothing has changed, that everything is completely 100% undeniably the same, while in fact things have changed. Also, I was following the lead of Morrus. Funny how when I do it, suddenly it's offensive.I assume then you must think people are stupid for saying things like &quot;last year in 2020&quot; or the like? Where they explicitly say that time can feel like it hasn't passed at all recently? Because that's a real thing people have been going through.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9267978, member: 6790260"] Ah, gotta love the CR -1 Straw Golem. Because yes it was [I]totally[/I] something so blindingly obvious and perfectly edition specific that no one could ever confuse them. Definitely not something like asking a question about "grappling" or how "opportunity attacks" work or how "Barbarian rage" works when those things have been [I]radically[/I] different between editions. Nope, 110% of the time it's something even a simpleton could correctly identify the origin of on sight. Couldn't [I]possibly[/I] be any of the myriad things that have similar names or similar concepts but significantly divergent expression! I'm not hyperbolizing the difference. I'm mocking WotC's song and dance. I love posts like this, because they're condescending and snide about a disagreement the poster started [I]and yet they actually agree on the claims in dispute.[/I] I literally never said it was a new edition. I have said, repeatedly and consistently, that it is a revision or update to the existing one. My criticism, and in this case my sarcasm, has always been that WotC fears either backlash or confusion from accurately calling it a revision, and thus they will not actually call it what it is. They will do a ridiculous song and dance to pretend that nothing has changed, that everything is completely 100% undeniably the same, while in fact things have changed. Also, I was following the lead of Morrus. Funny how when [I]I[/I] do it, suddenly it's offensive. I assume then you must think people are stupid for saying things like "last year in 2020" or the like? Where they explicitly say that time can feel like it hasn't passed at all recently? Because that's a real thing people have been going through. [/QUOTE]

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