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<blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 8731834" data-attributes="member: 6807784">In order to get to &quot;what is popular,&quot; most people have to first present their personal ideas, and then we can discuss via deconstruction how that idea may or may not be incompatible with 5E's design paradigms. It doesn't matter if most people start from a perspective of &quot;I would prefer this, so this should be how it is,&quot; because these people are not working for WotC, they don't have any influence on WotC, and they have usually just presented their ideas and have not interrogated them through the lens of WotC yet, and many are not capable of interrogating through that lens since it requires deconstruction of WotC's own baroque materials. So that means, instead of reminding them that their opinion might not be public taste, its usually more beneficial to both you and them to take the time to go through their critiques, and to bring in your knowledge of WotC's design paradigms and use that to discuss what may or may not be a good change. Much more, IMO, then just pretending that every critique off the bat has to meet you and WotC's standards, which is functionally impossible and an absurd claim to have.I said this in my last post, but maybe not enough words?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shardstone, post: 8731834, member: 6807784"] In order to get to "what is popular," most people have to first present their personal ideas, and then we can discuss via deconstruction how that idea may or may not be incompatible with 5E's design paradigms. It doesn't matter if most people start from a perspective of "I would prefer this, so this should be how it is," because these people are not working for WotC, they don't have any influence on WotC, and they have usually just presented their ideas and have not interrogated them through the lens of WotC yet, and many are not capable of interrogating through that lens since it requires deconstruction of WotC's own baroque materials. So that means, instead of reminding them that their opinion might not be public taste, its usually more beneficial to both you and them to take the time to go through their critiques, and to bring in your knowledge of WotC's design paradigms and use that to discuss what may or may not be a good change. Much more, IMO, then just pretending that every critique off the bat has to meet you and WotC's standards, which is functionally impossible and an absurd claim to have. I said this in my last post, but maybe not enough words? [/QUOTE]

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