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How to Pitch Your D&D Group on a New Game [new system] | Mike Mearls
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I've been pretty negative on Mearls for a long time. Back when I still played D&D it always felt like between him and Crawford, he was the one always speaking up with nonsense whereas Crawford was the thoughtful designer. And he was still in charge of D&D during the period that I lost interest with the game in part due to the longer-term direction of the game and in part due to retroactive changes made to existing material.
But I've been watching his new YouTube channel a bit lately, and it's not bad. This one was particularly interesting.
fwiw, i think mearls usually gets kind of a bad rap online because he usually has some pretty questionable hot take answers to things on platforms like twitter. I've actually met him in person a few times and played D&D with him; He's an extremely nice person, and a very good DM. i think he's just not so good at his own personal PR online.
I've never doubted that he's a good person and I'm not at all surprised to hear he's a good GM. I just questioned his game design skills.
But yes, I think you may be right that a large part of that comes down to his social media prowess...or lack thereof.