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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3709590" data-attributes="member: 32740">I apologize for the tone.  Reading an endless parade of posts about how evil every past edition was and why, and how evil 4E is going to be and why, and I let it get to me.  I'm lucky I didn't actually post the rant I included in my first response.  I am not looking forward to the next 9 months if various boards are going to be like they have in the last few days.  It was not my intent to be insulting, but I definitely disagree that 3.5 "is the REAL reason everyone is angry".  There was anger before, during and now after 3.5.  It isn't 3.5 that is a specific cause just because you happen to have heightened issues about 3.5, valid though they may be.  There has always been, and always will be, a highly vocal percentage of gamers who will choose to be offended by change.  I say "choose" because change is inevitable.  4E won't last forever unchanged either so after people are through __ about the onset of 4E because it's a fait accompli they'll start to do the same about the NEXT version, and continue to do so about not having stopped at a given PAST version.My understanding is that 3.5 was always intended regardless of the fact that it was enacted earlier than originally planned.  The only reason they're saying there will be no 4.5 is because those INEVITABLE updates and minor revisions will be done continuously online via D&D Insider where ALL such will be considered "official" rules [this according to this mornings ENworld news].  Rather than fret another moment about what past sins may have been committed, since NOTHING about the inevitability of change is going to change we'd all do better to focus on how we intend to deal with that change more sensibly from this point forward.</blockquote>

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