I once thought that I could shove my own opinion about D&D (That WotC has corrupted it into a kiddy game just to make more money) into others by sheer willpower, but by force of being kicked in the rear constantly, I have realized that people shouldn’t give a crap about what other people play. They like playing 4th Edition? Fine by me. I’ll play 2nd Edition with my friends, and won’t mess with them. Everyone’s happy.

Still, I must say that I feel sad with all the changes it has suffered. D&D deserves something better… Or at least, that’s what I think myself. Others can and obviously do think differently.

Personally, I love 4e. I also don’t care whether anyone else likes it or not.

I only argue about it when someone is either lying about it (which results in less people trying a gave they might enjoy), or trying to pass off opinion as fact. Neither of these are 4e exclusive.

All I ask of people is that they try a game (any game) before they tell other people it’s (objectively) a crappy game.

To say you don’t like 4e? Yeah, you can do that based on reading previews. That’s fine.

To say that 4e is a minis game, a WoW clone, a card game, or just an objctively crap game, and to say such a thing as though it were fact, well, I’d like you to at least try the game before making such accusations.

(I, for instance, dislike the Pathfinder ruleset, and have read through the alpha releases to confirm that. But I’ll never tell anyone not to play it. I may say that I personally found it to be disappointing, but I’ll never claim that as objective fact.)

I wish more people thought like you did, man.

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You are a shining example of the point of this particular post. You come on here, calling me a 4e fanboi (ooh, even used the supposedly more heinous version of the word too), and ranting on before could even digest what I was talking about.

You did present a valid point. Perhaps it did come off like I had my panties in a bunch, maybe I do. But I think I had plenty of reason… which you may read as rationale (and I should have spelled as “reasoning”). You may have reasons… but that doesn’t mean they make sense.

And I dislike a lot of what Wizards of the Coast has done lately.. but it really has nothing to do with the D&D rules… just their GSL and the motivations behind it.