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They can claim it's not a new edition, but it's certainly a new era.

The question posed is addressing a singular person ("you"), but every answer available suggests a response is made by a group ("we"). That changes the perspective from individual preference to group consensus. Should the question have been "How likely is your group..."? Personally, I don't...

I can appreciate what you went through, and about holding people to standards. Some of us make great efforts to ensure we get the most out of our time when it is available to do the things we love. I've no time for people who place less value on those activities, or the time invested to indulge...

I can apply this to a total loss of gaming. I've basically given up and called it quits in the last few years, and tried to find other adjacent hobbies to fill that void, like painting minis, playing more video games, and listening to more music. Sadly, that longing never really goes away, but...

Most of the popular VTTs flaunt really cool features that highlight things that are often difficult or expensive to do at a real table. Things like line of sight, fog of war, or just having a plethora of unique, large, well-drawn maps at the ready. This promotes a specific, but common, style of...

"100%" tells me that you're just not willing to take that chance. You lack faith that anyone else could possibly want something different, or that you won't have anyone to play things your way. 4e already proved that there is some section of the population that not only accepted the radical...

Let me try this another way. This was absolutely a Dungeons & Dragons game. No question about it, even for those who argue in the manner that you describe. We know who they are, and why we reserve a grain of salt for everything they say after. It is, in fact, my favorite expression of that game...

PF2 took a lot of good ideas from 4e, but I'm never going to accept that it occupies the same space as 4e, or even D&D for that matter. And that is entirely my point. PF2 is better because it wasn't beholden to prior systems or legacies. It broke some molds and redesigned some old ideas, but in...

So 4e wasn't the problem. "D&D" was the problem. If 4e was designed without the need to shoehorn a completely different system designed for multiple, specific styles of play, it could've been so much better. D&D held it back from doing things better because it was safer to bet on the legacy and...

I wish people would stop cautioning others for daring to dream... Maybe its just better to stop relying on others, hoping they fulfill them for us. fingers crossed It wasn't really a question. If it were, it'd be rhetorical. Oh, Vandal Hearts! I forgot about that one! Probably a couple more I...

I have. The best review I've read about it describes it something like "playing with an incompetent DM, which is about as close to the real pen and paper experience as you can get". I think it's pretty acurate. But this is leading to an entirely different conversation. ToEE is nothing like...

People need to stop fixating on comparisons to MMOs, especially World of Warcraft. Aside from attempts to disparage the system, there is really nothing in the way either game plays that are even close. And most people who like 4e never want it to be otherwise. If anything, 4e actually has more...

Something most people tend to overlook is what happened before 4th Edition happened. It was only a decade before its release that TSR was about to lose everything, and the future of D&D was in serious jeopardy. Wizards of the Coast single-handedly saved the game as an independently-owned...

I approve this move, but shouldn't this be its own topic in another thread? I'm sure people who'd like to join in that conversation may have already turned away from this thread and its unwanted baggage. Just a thought.

@Joshua Randall If you're not being part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. Like I said, let the haters hate. Since you've decided to be one yourself, I'll just let you be and let you do what you do.

I can tell you the number of times the people at my game table were alarmed by the thought of playing a game that was being OUTSOLD by another game. It's zero.

I see it all the time. But I try not to give it more oxygen than necessary. So maybe I can offer you some free advice? 1. Stop engaging with obvious click-bait material. Just because some random person with an internet account wants to explain their unoriginal ideas and pass it off as...

I guess it bears repeating what I've said before: I yearn for the day when everyone can stop fixating on 4e as being the "failed" edition, the "controversial" edition, or the "divisive" edition. Just accept that (like it or not) it is just another version of the Dungeons & Dragons, respect that...