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.-= Eric Maziade´s last blog ..An interesting lunch with ChattyDM (did I post this too early?) =-.

That said, some people need to get a grip, on both sides of the debate. 4th Edition doesn’t fit the way I like to play, so I’m not going to play it. The few things I like, I’m working to incorporate them into my 3.5 game and let it go. Pathfinder is the future for us, mostly because it fits with our game.

I’ll admit, I’ve been guilty of blasting away. I recently posted a review of 4th Edition on my blog (it was a three parter and my first three posts). However, the problems are all subjective. WOTC will probably fix a lot of the problems in future books (which is another issue for me…but again, subjective).

I also have to point out how there are folks on forums who will tell me I’m wrong for not embracing 4th Edition wholeheartedly. It doesn’t matter that I hate the skill system in place, or the need to put “roles” for each class, that should be secondary and my concerns should be overlooked.

It’s like I have said before…I’ll play what I want to play, and you play what you want to play. So long as people game, who really cares?

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Unless you’re in a tournament, I’ve never understood how you can be playing a game “wrong”. Whatever a group of consenting adults want to do around a game table is their own damned business.

You are 100% right. A game is a game by any other name. NOBODY has a right to tell you whether the game you play is “right” or “wrong”. I’ve had players leave my group because we don’t roleplay enough. Well, sorry, but my core group are a bunch of rabid steam venting troll shredding power gamers….with silly voices and method acting to liven up the atmosphere. They LIKE roll-playing. They want to be characters in a complex action/adventure, not a period drama. Thats just the way they (pardon the pun) roll.

4E came across as a little too “cartoony” at the moment, and din’t offer the types of options that we wanted, so we arent going to play it. End of story. That said, none of them go out and picket in front of FLGS’s, or write hate mail to WoTC. It simply is not good peopling.

I hope this whole thing dies down soon. Though I expect a whole new fire to start when the “butchering” of the realms hits print. *sigh*

I used to be a venom spewer. Thanks to da internets, I will always be associated with some of the bile and vitriol from the pre-release days. I can live with that, as I have seen the light. We CAN all get along…it really is that simple. We have “our” game and “they” have “their” game…why is this problematic? Because people are people, and one thing people do is destroy things that are beautiful…it’s in our nature.

The XKCD comic nails it 1000%

Hate is easy, resistance is instinctive. Fun is subjective.

Controlling other people’s views… I could do without. Sell me to your point of view, don’t bully me!

The Chatty DM’s last post: I’m finally done!