Dire Bare
Legend
Nope, didn't miss it.I guess you missed the 4e teaser that lampooned earlier editions? Elementary marketing boner there - don’t imply criticism of your own product. If they had just said that 4e was the best D&D ever, people wouldn’t have been so down on their marketing. But they didn’t…
EDIT: Trying to stick within mod guidelines from @Umbran.
There's no doubt that 4E was a huge departure from D&D tradition, lots of changes, all at once . . . and that didn't sit well with lots of folks. What irritated me back in the day . . . and I guess still today . . . is that some fans conflate this break with tradition as an insult to earlier versions of the game and fans of those versions. WotC's decision to deliver a 4E very different from what came before, and market it as the best thing ever . . . was just not insulting in any way, shape, or form to existing fans, despite the upset from some of those fans. Even with some jokey pokes at older versions of the game.
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