I'm the weird man out here. I play 4E, but only buy Paizo products. Not sure I'll ever run them, but they fulfill my thirst for well-written adventures and campaign background. Paizo brought me back into the fold when they released the four Greyhawk poster maps. That act of gracious beauty made me re-up my lapsed subscriptions and the knowledge that I sync well with them in play style will mean they'll always get my business. I'm a sentimentalist I guess.
Paizo brought me back into the fold when they released the four Greyhawk poster maps. That act of gracious beauty made me re-up my lapsed subscriptions and the knowledge that I sync well with them in play style will mean they'll always get my business. I'm a sentimentalist I guess.
I have the 4 part FR map on my wall. I've rarely played in Greyhawk (except for my early days when our campaign was just an endless string of modules tenuously set in Greyhawk). So when I got the GH map I packed it up and sent it to a Greyhawk fan that wasn't into 3e, and therefore never even knew that map was published. Nothing like getting surprised by your favorite RPG stuff in the mail!
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I'd be happy to give pointers to anyone doing conversion work, or explain why I made certain design choices during my own conversion process.
Haha, I wonder if working on the conversion is my way of coping.And by the way, mad praise for the conversion work you've done so far. This project has helped me cope with the heartbreaking sadness of having the best third party RPG publisher in existence opt against supporting my edition of choice.
Honestly, the fact that you felt the need to respond as you responded kinda proves my point. Nobody mentioned hate. But you took it as an accusation, felt the need to go on the defensive, and bashed 4e fans and WOTC. Paizo fans seem to react like you reacted on a disproportionate basis. It's definitely not all of them, but it's too many of them for my tastes. It creates an inherent barrier to buying the game products.
Why would I want to buy a product which is often (but not always) supported by people who apparently automatically and instinctively feel the need to bash others? Why would I want to walk that mine field?