Pax said:
Yes, I think that ENWorld is fairly representative of the D&D community as a whole;
You think too highly of yourself.
and since the majority of that representative group holds a negative opinion of this change (and others), I feelit is safe to say, the majority of gamers will not receive this change well.
That's because people don't like their toys being taken away from them.
I have never, before now, heard anyone COMPLAIN about such broad threat ranges; the response has always been "yep, and a lot of stuff out thereis plain immune to crits".
If there were no complaints, there would be no need for such responses.
As of 3.5e, I will NOT be welcome, in a default-rules game, to choose any such thing.
There is no such thing as a "default-rules" game. Everybody has house rules, and I've got no doubt even in 3.5E this will remain the case. Unless you play Living Greyhawk or something similar, but from all reports LG is a travesty of D&D, so that's your problem.