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<blockquote data-quote="Dustin DePenning" data-source="post: 6577380" data-attributes="member: 6791549"><p>Some great posts – all summing up much of its demise.</p><p></p><p>I ran one shot adventure of 4th edition to see what my friends though. Immediately they all griped about how different and unlike D&D 3.5 it was. They all wanted a 3.9 (which is Pathfinder.) They had bought in so deeply into the mechanical rat maze of 3.5 that they weren't ready to leave. They had mastered its bizarre, unbalanced rules and situational mechanics. They had conquered that game, learned which rules to ignore, and which rules to make up to "fix" it. 3.9 would have breathed some much needed life into the game without undoing all their hard work mastering it.</p><p></p><p>4E shattered all those expectations. My friends weren't ready. Couple that with how 4E was marketed so oddly toward cross-over video gamers, they felt the game wasn't meant for them. So they all went to Pathfinder.</p><p></p><p>I remember being angry at them for not giving it a chance, and going to play a "new" system that was not a significant improvement over the old one. But it's what they wanted, and I can't fault them for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dustin DePenning, post: 6577380, member: 6791549"] Some great posts – all summing up much of its demise. I ran one shot adventure of 4th edition to see what my friends though. Immediately they all griped about how different and unlike D&D 3.5 it was. They all wanted a 3.9 (which is Pathfinder.) They had bought in so deeply into the mechanical rat maze of 3.5 that they weren't ready to leave. They had mastered its bizarre, unbalanced rules and situational mechanics. They had conquered that game, learned which rules to ignore, and which rules to make up to "fix" it. 3.9 would have breathed some much needed life into the game without undoing all their hard work mastering it. 4E shattered all those expectations. My friends weren't ready. Couple that with how 4E was marketed so oddly toward cross-over video gamers, they felt the game wasn't meant for them. So they all went to Pathfinder. I remember being angry at them for not giving it a chance, and going to play a "new" system that was not a significant improvement over the old one. But it's what they wanted, and I can't fault them for it. [/QUOTE]
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