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<blockquote data-quote="Ratskinner" data-source="post: 6081915" data-attributes="member: 6688937"><p>I can understand such frustrations, but I didn't see anything provocative in that post. Now, I didn't stay on the forums for most of the edition wars (once they started heating up, forums kinda lost their value to me), however, it seems to me that there seems to be a lot of very defensive reactions by 4e supporters around here lately. I don't feel inclined to conjecture much about why. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I kinda feel like the edition wars are over and everybody lost. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I didn't follow the run-up to 4e even as much as I have followed the development of 5e. I often wonder how much my impressions and understanding would have been different if I had, frex, picked up Worlds and Monsters. On the one hand, I feel like the initial 4e did a much poorer job than even you give it credit for. On the other hand, its hard to distinguish that from coming to the game with a lot of preconceptions from former editions. I mean that on both a personal and popular level. On the <em>other </em>other hand, I didn't find 4e to be a bad game at all, even without all the insights you had. It ran fine for me with 3e-ish OOC sensibilities. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I guess I just don't see presumption of what the designers were thinking in Derren's post. (Although I accept that he may have made such in previous posts.) Even in post 77 above, he is couching things in terms of his opinions, impressions, and conjecture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ratskinner, post: 6081915, member: 6688937"] I can understand such frustrations, but I didn't see anything provocative in that post. Now, I didn't stay on the forums for most of the edition wars (once they started heating up, forums kinda lost their value to me), however, it seems to me that there seems to be a lot of very defensive reactions by 4e supporters around here lately. I don't feel inclined to conjecture much about why. Personally, I kinda feel like the edition wars are over and everybody lost. I didn't follow the run-up to 4e even as much as I have followed the development of 5e. I often wonder how much my impressions and understanding would have been different if I had, frex, picked up Worlds and Monsters. On the one hand, I feel like the initial 4e did a much poorer job than even you give it credit for. On the other hand, its hard to distinguish that from coming to the game with a lot of preconceptions from former editions. I mean that on both a personal and popular level. On the [I]other [/I]other hand, I didn't find 4e to be a bad game at all, even without all the insights you had. It ran fine for me with 3e-ish OOC sensibilities. I guess I just don't see presumption of what the designers were thinking in Derren's post. (Although I accept that he may have made such in previous posts.) Even in post 77 above, he is couching things in terms of his opinions, impressions, and conjecture. [/QUOTE]
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