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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 1021617" data-attributes="member: 7859">Something about these threads that crack me up is like a moth to flame someone who is so sick of these types of threads appears and posts their disproval.  They know it is a rant thread, they know it will bug them, they know this but still they read, and their blood boils and almost against their will they begin typing and hitting the dread "post" button.so funny,*I suffer from this as well*One statement that kinda chaffs my hide is the whole "you dont have to buy 3.5" bunk.  See I doubt WOTC wants you to feel that way.  Wizards is smart, they provide the SRD so if you dont want to you dont have to buy 3.5 right now, you can peruse the SRD,  hopefully get comfortable with the changes and decide to bite the bullet and buy the books.The last thing they want is for people "not to buy it" because if one doesnt buy 3.5, the likelyhood of said people buying any future D&D products drops signifigantly.  TSR did the same thing with 2e, TSR focused on products a lot of people didnt like, lost their confidence, and watched as people left the hobby.I would be careful throwing around such statements, Peter Adkinson may not be in a position to save D&D if Hasbro decided it was a fruitless venture and pulled the plug, or if say it sells it to Games Workshops and GW procedes to GWize it.Some people are going to be wary about the change, wariness can be a good thing, it can keep people and companies honest.If tommorrow all gasoline was reformalized to work better in new cars, but would correspondingly not work so well or possibly not at all in exsisting cars, you would probably want some long explanations for why this change was needed, and would probably be rather cross if you felt it didnt benefit you.Frankly a lot of people,(and I appoligize to Eric's Gma if this offends) make Asses of themselves spewing forth invective spite over other people's (legitamate) concerns.  How about if you love 3.5 and cant stand any questioning of it, you instead of declaring "you dont have to buy it"simply dont read the thread.I might make a sig saying YOU DONT HAVE TO READ THE THREAD.</blockquote>

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