The Culture: It's Nice When They Just Admit It

The Pundit confirmed what many of us suspected.

It's because they want a LEGO bucket, and it's because they play Calvinball- not D&D.

Their product releases, when they are not meant to be literal clones of Out Of Print products (e.g. Mutant Future), are intended by design to be "(Product) But With Muh House Rules". That's why they're a mish-mash of meh that fell away as soon as WOTC did the smart thing and made the Real Thing available again. (No, your begging-based presence is not the definition of success.)

The smart play is to focus on one full, proper, and real game to the point of mastery. One game, played to mastery, and that's it. No need (as I said a few days ago) for Endless Product Slop, not when you know the ins and outs of how the machine works so you can drive it to achieve the desired performance without trying.

If you think that's provocative, you're in for a wild ride next year when more of these Just So Shibboleths get the Idol Smashing treatment.