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<blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 6243146" data-attributes="member: 59411"><p>I really put a crazy lot of faith in the management, before I realized most the design leads disliked the edition or simply never understood it. Chris Perkins and the freelancers produced the memorable stuff. You know, I actually championed Mearls at first, too. After the bumbling of the first two years of the edition, it had to get better. I really thought his leadership push was going into proliferating 4e across a wider breadth of tastes, interests, and play styles while keeping in line with the stable core. Part of me hoped for Paizo-level attention to the edition and materials to buy and run. But they tanked it, instead. They freaking tanked it. </p><p></p><p>In no way did I initially get the impression Essentials was 'the new way of doing things', and definitely not the last hurrah. Was anyone else looking at Essentials rather innocently as simply a new sort of entry point/simplified option? I really thought we'd see the PHB4, the DMG3 Epic (they had Chris Perkin's very good articles that could have easily been reworked and added to!), Heroes of the Astral Sea, Monster Vault 3, etc. There were definitely hints of 4e Dragonlance floating around, too, for awhile. 4e would have been perfect for Birthright even more-so, in truth. And who didn't want to see Chris's Iomandra or Valoreign released as proper 4e-specific campaign settings?</p><p></p><p>And when they had that big announcement that turned out to be 5e, hah, I was sure it was going to be 4.5. My head was swimming with the possibilities, and this might have just been my skewed perception but the conversations leading up to the announcement actually had some excellent discussion and almost amiable dialogue between edition warriors validating each other. Sure, some were crying edition change, edition change, but I didn't put any stock in their cries beyond trolling. This was going to be it, what 4e deserved, with the renewed attention it deserved, the kind that would really allow it to shine. I thought the whole of the rp community was pretty much ready. Insane, yeah, I know... Oh what a shock lol. I still haven't been able to quite trust the current D&D after that. </p><p></p><p>Should have seen it coming, though. I guess when everything I was looking forward to on the last legitimate catalog was canceled or transformed into system-neutral, something should have went off in my head.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pour, post: 6243146, member: 59411"] I really put a crazy lot of faith in the management, before I realized most the design leads disliked the edition or simply never understood it. Chris Perkins and the freelancers produced the memorable stuff. You know, I actually championed Mearls at first, too. After the bumbling of the first two years of the edition, it had to get better. I really thought his leadership push was going into proliferating 4e across a wider breadth of tastes, interests, and play styles while keeping in line with the stable core. Part of me hoped for Paizo-level attention to the edition and materials to buy and run. But they tanked it, instead. They freaking tanked it. In no way did I initially get the impression Essentials was 'the new way of doing things', and definitely not the last hurrah. Was anyone else looking at Essentials rather innocently as simply a new sort of entry point/simplified option? I really thought we'd see the PHB4, the DMG3 Epic (they had Chris Perkin's very good articles that could have easily been reworked and added to!), Heroes of the Astral Sea, Monster Vault 3, etc. There were definitely hints of 4e Dragonlance floating around, too, for awhile. 4e would have been perfect for Birthright even more-so, in truth. And who didn't want to see Chris's Iomandra or Valoreign released as proper 4e-specific campaign settings? And when they had that big announcement that turned out to be 5e, hah, I was sure it was going to be 4.5. My head was swimming with the possibilities, and this might have just been my skewed perception but the conversations leading up to the announcement actually had some excellent discussion and almost amiable dialogue between edition warriors validating each other. Sure, some were crying edition change, edition change, but I didn't put any stock in their cries beyond trolling. This was going to be it, what 4e deserved, with the renewed attention it deserved, the kind that would really allow it to shine. I thought the whole of the rp community was pretty much ready. Insane, yeah, I know... Oh what a shock lol. I still haven't been able to quite trust the current D&D after that. Should have seen it coming, though. I guess when everything I was looking forward to on the last legitimate catalog was canceled or transformed into system-neutral, something should have went off in my head. [/QUOTE]
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