Here is an excellent review of the new One D&D presentation and summary from The Rules Lawyer over on Youtube. Admittedly, this video is more of a Pathfidner 2e perspective of the changes, but he makes some very good points and is very fair.
This is worth checking out, and it does give me a new perspective on Pathfinder 2e. Especially how this was constantly revised and play-tested to the highest levels when the game was in development, and how many of the systems changed.
And all of this change just makes me happy I am sticking with OSR, Pathfinder 2e, and 5E-like games for now and waiting for the final 6E books are out to make a decision on jumping in. As it sounds, I see more things I dislike instead of like, such as player-only crits and the rules for automatic success and failure. It also seems like DM-ing is getting worse instead of better.
There also seem to be a few worrying things with Wizards dictating changes in a series of books and articles instead of them taking player feedback and setting up a proper playtest and community commenting structure for the new rules. To do this without official feedback, playtests, and the structure of community involvement is very troubling.
If Wizards feels a bunch of lead designers knows best and community feedback is not being considered, then my interest in a new edition does not have a lot of confidence. Mind you, this is still very early and they could announce playtests and feedback structures as a part of the plan, but not mentioning them and not reassuring players of a process in place is very worrying.
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