User talk:Ajluis101
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A Final Word[edit]
Alas, it is very unfortunate to see the choice you have made to hunker down even further defensively and leave the site. Again, this is your choice which you have always been free to make. There are plenty of other homebrew sites to create and share content on, after all. However, each of those sites have their own standards (or lack there-of) by which homebrew content is judged, and the points brought up here on DanDwiki about your homebrew won't change simply because you've taken it elsewhere. You mentioned the idea of an "echo chamber" in your reply to mine in Talk:Draconian (Infernal Lizardfolk) (5e Race), but ultimately, ironically, by doing this, all you will be doing is removing yourself from criticism and hampering your own potential to grow as a designer. That's the thing about this site: the spirit of the wiki isn't to bully new users off the site, it's to collaborate to try to make each creation the best version of itself that it can be, independent of any single creator. And yes, that collaboration can require a willingness to allow yourself to be challenged, understanding and accepting criticism. In fact, it's very important, if not necessary to do so. A page only becomes great if each collaborator to it is aware of their strengths and weaknesses, and they allow the strengths of others to cover their weaknesses instead of defending them. And it's a shame, because I definitely saw the potential in some of the pages you created to become great.
Since you're leaving the site and it's going to be deleted anyway (soon-to-be-deleted pages are basically a forfeit free-for-all for anyone to work on), I will be adopting the Draconian (Infernal Lizardfolk) (5e Race) page. As I stated in the talk page, I actually am quite fond of it, and that's a large reason why I wrote so much to try and help you see how to save it, and also why I'm writing this now. I wish you luck in your future endeavors, whatever they may be. --ZarHakkar (talk) 19:58, 26 March 2024 (MDT)
