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I think it is also fair though to say that one's experience with a RPG is also influenced in no small part by the GM. I had not-great GM...

I completely understand that.

That's fine. I was not knocking your preferences. For me it it had to make sense in the fiction why a person could only try something...

Never said they were. I can and have moved on. And if they hadn't decided to call their new game D&D we wouldn't be having this...

I feel 1.5 years of 4e play as a GM and a player is a fair chance.

My point is that the answer to dealing with something you like changing to something you don't is not just deciding to stop not liking...

See, neither the narrative flavor nor the codified gamism of 4e work for me. It just doesn't do what I want D&D, or RPGs in general, to do.

Well, I spent over a year running and playing 4e, and at the end of it I enjoyed it less, as the things I didn't care for about it...

Being able to roll gives people an incentive to invest in and get better at that particular talent. Developing ability scores, choosing...

So you can decide to have different preferences? Is this a serious response?

There is a meaningful difference between excluding dragonborn from play because you do not like them and having an issue with the actual...

Pathfinder Society play has quite a bit centered on hero points, with various boon effects based on your faction. Pathfinder actually...

Harder to justify that stance with D&D specifically, given it's overwhelming influence, especially if you've been a fan for decades...

IMO it makes the game better by having things make more logical sense. If there's reasonable way for a player's PC to know something...

You can't make changes without excluding people who don't want them. And they had to know that. They were just ok with it.