Originally Posted by Sordak
It was too clean, too gamey and it told you too many things bluntly and upfront.
Meanwhile people that were used to 3e wanted prosa text, they wanted trap options and they wanted it to be opaque.

In many ways people expect from dnd sourcebooks to be some kind of arcane books. Im not even kidding, its part of the expirience for many people, feeling like youre reading some eldritch tome that may or may not contain rules.



This is a good point. I think you're onto something here.