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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6100161" data-attributes="member: 6680772">Now look veeeerrrry carefully over my post, note that I haven't edited it since you've posted, and show me where I said Mearls was in charge of anything in 4e.  I'll wait....Now, since we can agree that Mearls was not in a lead position in 4e design (at least nothing like he was later in 4e's publishing life, or where he is now), I have no idea why you'd characterize his contribution as just a worker bee.  He was on the first development team that broke down Orcus I.  He's specifically named along with Rich Baker as the ones who broke 4e design open and came up with AEDU formula.  That's 4e!  Everything else is just cleaned up 3e.  He was a member of Flywheel Team and Player's Handbook Development, the teams that wrote the mechanical book on classes and powers (why else do you think his name is on the cover of the PHB?)  He was on the Magic Item Creation team.  He was part of the design team from the beginning.  His name is on MM1, MM2, MM3, DMG 2, DMG 3, PHB 2, PHB 3 (and first credit on most of those).He was for quite some time the public face of 4e hate.  There were no few 4e-haters who said upon the announcement of 5e, "Mearls is still in charge, so I'm not interested."  Disagree with him all you like.  By all means, say that what he wants to focus on right now is not important to you or germane to your interests.  But can we stop pretending that he was just some hanger-on "4e Developer In Name Only" who happened to luck into a position of power after all True 4e Creators were let go?  He was there at the beginning, he was there at the middle, and at the end, at the point when 4e fans almost universally agree 4e found its stride and had actually realized the promises made in those early books, he was in charge.</blockquote>

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