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4E WotC way of saying your fired?
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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3811101" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>I sure get the feeling that WotC is "firing" me and letting me know they don't want me as a D&D player anymore.</p><p></p><p>They take the Forgotten Realms, the setting of D&D I know the best and to me is a key part of D&D, and they ravage it and turn it into some dark post-apocalyptic version of it. At the same time, they say they are Eberron only what is essential to use 4e with it.</p><p></p><p>They get rid of gnomes, they change magic around so much that they will have 25th level spells and at-will powers, they get rid of the Great Wheel, they greatly deemphasize alignment, and tie it all into a platform-specific online framework.</p><p></p><p>Out goes gnome illusionists, in comes tiefling warlocks. Now I'm feeling like a gnome illusionist, that when the PHB comes out, there is no place for me in it, that so much of what I think of when I think of D&D has been taken out that I can't.</p><p></p><p>It also seems like they were trying to fork the market or tell older fans to not bother when they said there would be no means of converting old characters to 4e. Converting my 2e PC's to 4e was one of the first things I did when I got 3e, and it was one of the ways I started to learn how the system worked, by figuring out character creation and progression and how to emulate old abilities and characters with the new system. Now WotC is saying don't bother, you can't do it.</p><p></p><p>If they are trying to chase away old D&D fans for new fans, intentionally forking the market to bring in fresh blood, they can do it, and I'll go on happily with my 3.5 books and teach my kids 3.5 instead of 4th or 5th edition when they get old enough for D&D in a few years.</p><p></p><p>It's just sad that after a decade of playing D&D, it feels like I'm getting a pink slip from WotC that I'm no longer a suitable customer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 3811101, member: 14159"] I sure get the feeling that WotC is "firing" me and letting me know they don't want me as a D&D player anymore. They take the Forgotten Realms, the setting of D&D I know the best and to me is a key part of D&D, and they ravage it and turn it into some dark post-apocalyptic version of it. At the same time, they say they are Eberron only what is essential to use 4e with it. They get rid of gnomes, they change magic around so much that they will have 25th level spells and at-will powers, they get rid of the Great Wheel, they greatly deemphasize alignment, and tie it all into a platform-specific online framework. Out goes gnome illusionists, in comes tiefling warlocks. Now I'm feeling like a gnome illusionist, that when the PHB comes out, there is no place for me in it, that so much of what I think of when I think of D&D has been taken out that I can't. It also seems like they were trying to fork the market or tell older fans to not bother when they said there would be no means of converting old characters to 4e. Converting my 2e PC's to 4e was one of the first things I did when I got 3e, and it was one of the ways I started to learn how the system worked, by figuring out character creation and progression and how to emulate old abilities and characters with the new system. Now WotC is saying don't bother, you can't do it. If they are trying to chase away old D&D fans for new fans, intentionally forking the market to bring in fresh blood, they can do it, and I'll go on happily with my 3.5 books and teach my kids 3.5 instead of 4th or 5th edition when they get old enough for D&D in a few years. It's just sad that after a decade of playing D&D, it feels like I'm getting a pink slip from WotC that I'm no longer a suitable customer. [/QUOTE]
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