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So you're saying one can have the best D&D game ever and have everyone play nice?

Um. Hasn't this very thread proved that wrong?

Yeah, I bopped out of lurk mode for that. Sorry for not having established my credentials beforehand. But, again, it's the Internet. What are you gonna do?

I have no problem with kindness. Honestly. But what we're discussing is game design. We're discussing editing. Neither of these has jack shlt to do with making friends, and everything to do with calling people on mistaken assumptions and pointing out ways to improve the text.

Really. When you're to the point where you've got a product that does what it's supposed to do, and that is then being discussed, then a community can be created, but using lacking kindness as an excuse to ban folks from a game design discussion leads to space hamsters and wolves-in-sheep-clothing and Player's Options books and thinking multiclassed sorcerers are A-okay.

The game needs to be better. I'm okay with hurt feelings if the product develops because of it. What would you rather have, an angry coversation on the Internet for a day and a half or the best version of D&D?

Hey, look who's made the game better through his insightful posting!

Oh, wait. He didn't. Can I write pointless waste of fncking time?

I can! Success!

These aren't social mistakes because there's no one to be friends with.

Honestly, you're names on a message board. I could walk by you on the street today and not know who you are. But if you were on fire I would throw some water on you. But on a message board, why bother? Ones and zeroes, man. Ones and zeroes.

No, really. You're creating a community to gain feedback on a game system. That's what you're doing. Politeness can kiss my ass if being impolite makes a better game system. Really, what are you trying to do? MAKE A BETTER GAME. Who gives a crap if you're polite in doing it?

I would much rather Paizo yank D&D3.5E from the depths of despair and make it a coherent role-playing game system than worry about who's being nice to whom. The former is a worthwhile goal; on the Internet the latter is pointless.

What are we after in the end? A good game. Who cares how we get there? So a few babies get smacked, a couple of lamerz get dissed, a handful of feelings are hurt. Is this really important in the grand scheme?

Dude, make a good game. If that means listening to Frank, so be it. If that means banning him, so be it. But don't do either in the name of hurt feelings, for heaven's sakes. Nobody thinks a game sucks or doesn't suck because someone's feelings are hurt in the process.

Paizo, you're not my friend. You're a company. The people on this board aren't my friends; they're digits. Paizo, make a good game, and do what you must to make a good game.