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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9432732" data-attributes="member: 93670">Most of the poll options ring true on some level.  They all add up to significant strikes against 2024 for me, but none of them take the crown.Ultimately there seems to have been no effort placed into anyone acting as an advocate for the GM & the GM's needs.  Likewise there was a lack of work done to address GM "pain points" (or even acknowledge their existence).  There is a great thread where new problems are compiled  over<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-2024-rules-oddities-kibbles%E2%80%99-collected-complaints.706071/#post-9431715" target="_blank"> here</a> & frankly too much of 2024 feels like the kinds of totally predictable problems invited by bad homebrew & totally borked d20 supplement stuff from the 3.x days.Ultimately wotc was clear that they felt it was ok to design & brag about stuff intended to "frustrate Dungeon Masters".  I have a difficult time believing that wotc can reverse course on ignoring the GM enough to match the high bar being set by stuff like MCDM & draw steel  without yet another edition.Even if wotc does put out errata as [USER=59816]@FitzTheRuke[/USER] noted, this is the same company that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4mPDrylfo&t=411s" target="_blank">only recently admitted </a>that they realized "very early on" that one of the base classes was too powerful & why after a decade of hear no evil see no evil while not even admitting it as something that GM's should consider addressing so players could expect their GM to do so instead of fighting their GM's efforts.   Even when wotc did things in the 2014 edition like the xge78 "going without a long rest" section that should have unquestionably ended coffeelock efforts from players, they did it with the pg56 aspect of the moon poison pill to provide enough uncertainty that I kept seeing efforts at coffeelocks at my AL tables for years.   Trust in possible hypothetical errata addressing very predictable issues is not in any way earned by what we've seen over the past decade when wotc's not even talking about errata yet.</blockquote>

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