What specific example of this makes it eponymous to Mearls, though? The most recent thing I'm aware of with his stamp on it (D&D 5e) seems like a quite successful simplification of what had gone before.
Which is like saying that C++ is a successful simplification of C. =)
It's called "Mearlsing" because D&D5 looks simpler, but there's various common rules that don't make sense. So many problems, in fact, that Mearls, the project director, is not allowed to answer rules questions any more on his twitter, because he doesn't know the answers, himself.
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What specific example of this makes it eponymous to Mearls, though? The most recent thing I'm aware of with his stamp on it (D&D 5e) seems like a quite successful simplification of what had gone before.
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It's called "Mearlsing" because D&D5 looks simpler, but there's various common rules that don't make sense. So many problems, in fact, that Mearls, the project director, is not allowed to answer rules questions any more on his twitter, because he doesn't know the answers, himself.
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