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KShaver wrote:

You'll likely be stuck with the armor, the suggested exhange is for the pre-nerfed versions.

Its a good armor anyway, I don't consider being stuck with it. But if it can be exchanged-thats too good to say no.

SYB wrote:

Ever notice that with certain posters, the vast majority of their posts are complaints? I really wonder why people like that continue to play the game.

If the campaign lacked any value, it wouldn't be worth trying to fix, and the earlier a mistake is fixed, the fewer negative consequences it is likely to have.

You will also find that those complaining about rules are usually the more LN of folks. When faced with poorly-drafted or ill-conceived rules, the vast majority of players are simply going to say, "Eh, ignore the actual text of the rules and just go with what makes sense to you." That causes the more lawful-inclined to tear the hair from their heads.

It's a basic difference in philosophy.

Consider, for example, a magic item that you might think the plain reading of the text makes the item too powerful (pre-errata veteran's armor or mnemonic staff).

If your philosophy were "I'm going to follow the rules, even if I don't like them", complaining that the rules are bad and should be changed makes sense, since unless you can bring the problem to the attention of those making decisions, you're going to have to live with the results of someone doing a poor job of deciding how an item works or deciding whether an item should be part of the campaign.

If your philosophy were "Eh. **** the rules. It doesn't work that way at my table, and if a player doesn't like it, he can leave.", then you're going to find it puzzling why anyone would waste time talking about something that's really not a problem.

Frustration also results because, being familiar with the work of some campaign staff, it's irritating to see them being hamstrung by WOTC staffers who simultaneously seem to want to keep the campaign on a pretty short leash, while at the same time, seemingly can't be bothered to get a simple straightforward set of rules right.

The fact that a campaign that's about six months old is on version 1.8 of its campaign guidelines (and still can't get some significant things right) is just frustrating, if you're the type of person that wants to play by the rules, wants to have your gaming group play by the rules and wants to present the campaign to others as being professional and competent.

-- Brian Gibbons.