My hearty support for this thread.
I love D&D, in all its forms, and I'm sick to the teeth of edition wars and accusations of there being a "4th Edition crowd" and so on - it's like being in a cheesy high-school drama. In all honesty, I don't really care one way or another what Wizards do with their PDFs, so long as nobody gets hurt and I can still play D&D. My games shelf is now so dense with D&D 3.5 and
4e books (plus a few Saga Star Wars tomes thrown in for good measure) that the cat has become locked in orbit around it, and I'll be damned before I'd have it any other way.
(except the cat in orbit. I rather prefer him with four legs on the ground).
Yes, I've had bad experiences with D&D 3.5, and sometimes D&D
4e can feel a bit same-y (and space combat in Saga just refuses to be fun), and Wizards can sometimes be a pain. At the end of the day, though, I'll still be here rolling my d20s and strolling down to the FLGS to pick up a copy of Dungeon Delve or Monster Manual 3 because I love the game. Wizards have never done anything truly atrocious and I appreciate that the needs of the company sometimes don't coincide with the needs of the fan. So be it!
I've had a hell of a lot more fun than grief from D&D in my time, and my only real regret is that there aren't an extra six hours in the day for more gaming.
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