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Just logged into D&D Beyond, and they removed Zak S, RPG Pundit and other consultants

Started by Grognard101, February 17, 2019, 10:22:14 PM

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Mistwell

#75
February 20, 2019, 01:05:00 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1075801D&D Beyond just sounds gay to me.

It's pretty asexual.

Christopher Brady

#76
February 20, 2019, 01:24:34 AM
Who cares?
"And now, my friends, a Dragon\'s toast!  To life\'s little blessings:  wars, plagues and all forms of evil.  Their presence keeps us alert --- and their absence makes us grateful." -T.A. Barron[/SIZE]

Spinachcat

#77
February 20, 2019, 01:24:40 AM
Mike Mearls needs to be fired for hiring ZakS and Pundit!

Mearls KNEW [fill in today's SJW buzzwords] and thus must be PURGED!!!

Okay you kids with Twitter, go make it happen.

THE LOLZ MUST FLOW!!!

Razor 007

#78
February 20, 2019, 01:55:36 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1075806Mike Mearls needs to be fired for hiring ZakS and Pundit!

Mearls KNEW [fill in today's SJW buzzwords] and thus must be PURGED!!!

Okay you kids with Twitter, go make it happen.

THE LOLZ MUST FLOW!!!


But Mike Mearls is credited with saving D&D.......
I need you to roll a perception check.....

Spinachcat

#79
February 20, 2019, 04:37:38 AM
Quote from: Razor 007;1075808But Mike Mearls is credited with saving D&D.......

But he hired Zak and Pundit! Under our current regime of Guilt By Association, doesn't that qualify Mearls for some UnPersoning?  

And who knows what Mearls might have done / said / thought 20+ years ago that could be declared worthy of Twitter Pillory?

Plus Mearls is a pasty boy. That's Save vs. SJW with Disadvantage!

Rhedyn

#80
February 20, 2019, 08:14:59 AM
Quote from: Razor 007;1075808But Mike Mearls is credited with saving D&D.......
Didn't he admit to killing 4e on purpose so he could make 5e?

moonsweeper

#81
February 20, 2019, 08:19:03 AM
Quote from: Rhedyn;1075836Didn't he admit to killing 4e on purpose so he could make 5e?

That's what Razor just said....Mearls was credited with saving D&D. :D
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Mordred Pendragon

#82
February 20, 2019, 08:19:06 AM
Quote from: Rhedyn;1075836Didn't he admit to killing 4e on purpose so he could make 5e?

I'm not so sure about that...

4e was already doing a very good job of killing itself.
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mAcular Chaotic

#83
February 20, 2019, 10:56:32 AM
It seems like there's a lot of renewed interest in 4e now that it's been replaced.
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Armchair Gamer

#84
February 20, 2019, 11:18:09 AM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1075845It seems like there's a lot of renewed interest in 4e now that it's been replaced.

   It's probably because it doesn't have to carry the whole weight of Being D&D and Carrying On The Tradition any more, so it can be appreciated for its own merits. It didn't do a very good job of Carrying On the Tradition--although it was better at reimagining a lot of those elements than people give it credit for--but it was a fine game in its own right.

Rhedyn

#85
February 20, 2019, 12:28:15 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1075846It's probably because it doesn't have to carry the whole weight of Being D&D and Carrying On The Tradition any more, so it can be appreciated for its own merits. It didn't do a very good job of Carrying On the Tradition--although it was better at reimagining a lot of those elements than people give it credit for--but it was a fine game in its own right.
4e is also now a complete edition while just the PH and first MM were rather incomplete for a 3e D&D replacement.

Now a lot of people here do not appreciate 3e D&D, but 4e did a good job at making that level of complication playable without tons of system mastery. If 4e in it's current form came out when 4e first did, it might have killed 3.X before Pathfinder ever got off the ground. It had the same issue PF2e is going to have, offering a new rules heavy game that just lacks the content of the older one and no one is done yet with all the content for the older game.

5e at least came with the benefit that you could run 0e-2e modules on easy mode with it.

Dan Vince

#86
February 20, 2019, 12:38:17 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1075827And who knows what Mearls might have done / said / thought 20+ years ago that could be declared worthy of Twitter Pillory?
He did write that negative review of Keep on the Borderlands 20 years ago.

Haffrung

#87
February 20, 2019, 02:01:44 PM
Quote from: Rhedyn;1075852Now a lot of people here do not appreciate 3e D&D, but 4e did a good job at making that level of complication playable without tons of system mastery. If 4e in it's current form came out when 4e first did, it might have killed 3.X before Pathfinder ever got off the ground. It had the same issue PF2e is going to have, offering a new rules heavy game that just lacks the content of the older one and no one is done yet with all the content for the older game.

One of the problems with 4E is the official adventures published in its first year were spectacularly ill-suited to the system. 4E is not a good choice for dungeon-crawls. It wasn't until the Essentials era that WotC realized what kind of adventures worked best with 4E.
 

mAcular Chaotic

#88
February 20, 2019, 02:18:32 PM
Everyone I talk to about Essentials though says it just gutted what people actually -liked- about 4E (among those who liked it). I've been discouraged from using it.
Battle doesn\'t need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don\'t ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don\'t ask why I fight.

Armchair Gamer

#89
February 20, 2019, 02:20:11 PM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1075862Everyone I talk to about Essentials though says it just gutted what people actually -liked- about 4E (among those who liked it). I've been discouraged from using it.

   The class builds can feel that way ... but the DM material (adventures, monster books, etc.) is, by all reports, 4E firing on all cylinders.
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