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<blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5760790" data-attributes="member: 61155"><p>Oh, I'm absolutely certain of that, but I think that has almost certainly been true of every edition compared to the one before it. Admittedly, I wasn't around for the transition between the original game and 2nd Edition, so I'm not sure what that transition was like. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>I think it is perfectly reasonable for many folks to feel that 4E isn't their cup of tea. I find questions of whether it is 'tabletop roleplaying as we know it' to be downright silly, myself. And I think trying to make the claim that the divide is between "true fans of D&D" and "fans of the current edition" is a false comparison to make. There are folks who played the early editions and felt 3rd Edition was a problem, but 4E returned to what they liked. There are folks who felt 3rd Edition and 4E alike are abominations. There are those who refuse to even speak of 2nd Ed. Etc. Yes, the number of different factions and games may have grown - some of that inevitable as more editions come out, some of that due to, yes, various mistakes WotC made in the launch of 4E. </p><p> </p><p>But as often as I've seen claims about who it is supporting each game, I've very rarely seen anything to support those claims. That there is a divide... yeah, that is certainly true. But whenever I've seen people trying to describe what each side of that division consists of... it often feels like folks don't want to accept that there can be people, playing a game they don't like, who are gamers with exactly the same roots as them. And so they need to invent a new, imagined brand of gamer, who must be the ones playing that game, because it is "all about the MMO", or "dumbed down for younger players who never played D&D before" or whatever. </p><p> </p><p>Now, sure, not everyone is saying that. But some of the article's generalizations seem to fall into that category, and there are certainly those in this thread who have tossed about similar concepts. I just don't think the divide is, or even can be, so simply delineated. </p><p> </p><p>Most of the people on each side are likely more similar than they think - they just happened to prefer different games for different reasons, and that's that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrMyth, post: 5760790, member: 61155"] Oh, I'm absolutely certain of that, but I think that has almost certainly been true of every edition compared to the one before it. Admittedly, I wasn't around for the transition between the original game and 2nd Edition, so I'm not sure what that transition was like. I think it is perfectly reasonable for many folks to feel that 4E isn't their cup of tea. I find questions of whether it is 'tabletop roleplaying as we know it' to be downright silly, myself. And I think trying to make the claim that the divide is between "true fans of D&D" and "fans of the current edition" is a false comparison to make. There are folks who played the early editions and felt 3rd Edition was a problem, but 4E returned to what they liked. There are folks who felt 3rd Edition and 4E alike are abominations. There are those who refuse to even speak of 2nd Ed. Etc. Yes, the number of different factions and games may have grown - some of that inevitable as more editions come out, some of that due to, yes, various mistakes WotC made in the launch of 4E. But as often as I've seen claims about who it is supporting each game, I've very rarely seen anything to support those claims. That there is a divide... yeah, that is certainly true. But whenever I've seen people trying to describe what each side of that division consists of... it often feels like folks don't want to accept that there can be people, playing a game they don't like, who are gamers with exactly the same roots as them. And so they need to invent a new, imagined brand of gamer, who must be the ones playing that game, because it is "all about the MMO", or "dumbed down for younger players who never played D&D before" or whatever. Now, sure, not everyone is saying that. But some of the article's generalizations seem to fall into that category, and there are certainly those in this thread who have tossed about similar concepts. I just don't think the divide is, or even can be, so simply delineated. Most of the people on each side are likely more similar than they think - they just happened to prefer different games for different reasons, and that's that. [/QUOTE]
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