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<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 966350" data-attributes="member: 4"><p>As has been pointed out, I was pretty much only dealing with folks who were pretty gung ho about it (or at least interested in learning more). I didn't hang out on usenet where people might have been a lot more vocally against it. </p><p></p><p>That said, I do get a sort of odd feeling... that 3.5e will be divisive instead of unifying. 3E, to me (and again I was not necessarily in a good location to get a really good clear picture of all of D&D-dom) seemed to be somewhat unifying. It brought some old school 1E gamers back into the fold. I don't see 3.5 bringing 2e or 1e players who hadn't already migrated to the new system. I do see it, potentially, leaving behind 3.0-happy or -comfortable, at least for a while. </p><p></p><p>In a few years, many of us who don't switch over immediately will probably switch over at some point down the road. But it certainly doesn't feel like a big emergency to me and feels like something I can do gradually or not at all if I don't want to. </p><p></p><p>In the meantime -- we need to do a very vigilant job of being tolerant of those who didn't go the way we chose to go. Calling those who don't want to switch "whiners" or calling those who switched immediately "mindless sheep" or whatever is going to get our community nowhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 966350, member: 4"] As has been pointed out, I was pretty much only dealing with folks who were pretty gung ho about it (or at least interested in learning more). I didn't hang out on usenet where people might have been a lot more vocally against it. That said, I do get a sort of odd feeling... that 3.5e will be divisive instead of unifying. 3E, to me (and again I was not necessarily in a good location to get a really good clear picture of all of D&D-dom) seemed to be somewhat unifying. It brought some old school 1E gamers back into the fold. I don't see 3.5 bringing 2e or 1e players who hadn't already migrated to the new system. I do see it, potentially, leaving behind 3.0-happy or -comfortable, at least for a while. In a few years, many of us who don't switch over immediately will probably switch over at some point down the road. But it certainly doesn't feel like a big emergency to me and feels like something I can do gradually or not at all if I don't want to. In the meantime -- we need to do a very vigilant job of being tolerant of those who didn't go the way we chose to go. Calling those who don't want to switch "whiners" or calling those who switched immediately "mindless sheep" or whatever is going to get our community nowhere. [/QUOTE]
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