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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 3814557" data-attributes="member: 957">Which is just as it should be.If they believe that a change can bring in 3 new players for every 2 it may lose, then it is completely unreasonable for anyone to try to say they are bad for doing it.&nbsp; Even if they happen to be in the group of 2s that get left out.&nbsp; And if they ARE unreasonable in this way then, yeah, too bad so sad is pretty much the response they merit.Right now I'm still somewhere between cautiously optimistic and enthusiastic.&nbsp; But I have some concerns.&nbsp; A lot of the things I have heard really seem to resonate the idea that much of the game will be dumbed down.&nbsp; They make comments to the effect that &quot;it took a really good DM to do this in 3X, but now in 4E anyone can do it.&quot;&nbsp; And that is well and good.&nbsp; But a lot of the specific examples strike me as coming at a price.&nbsp; And that price is less freedom for a good DM to do whatever he wants.&nbsp; I'm not saying this is a truth.&nbsp; I don't know yet.&nbsp; But I keep catching that vibe.&nbsp; And if that turns out to be right, then I, myself, will find that I'm one of the groups of 2s that get left behind.&nbsp; But not only will that not be a crime against me, it will not even be the tiniest slight against me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 3814557, member: 957"] Which is just as it should be. If they believe that a change can bring in 3 new players for every 2 it may lose, then it is completely unreasonable for anyone to try to say they are bad for doing it. Even if they happen to be in the group of 2s that get left out. And if they ARE unreasonable in this way then, yeah, too bad so sad is pretty much the response they merit. Right now I'm still somewhere between cautiously optimistic and enthusiastic. But I have some concerns. A lot of the things I have heard really seem to resonate the idea that much of the game will be dumbed down. They make comments to the effect that "it took a really good DM to do this in 3X, but now in 4E anyone can do it." And that is well and good. But a lot of the specific examples strike me as coming at a price. And that price is less freedom for a good DM to do whatever he wants. I'm not saying this is a truth. I don't know yet. But I keep catching that vibe. And if that turns out to be right, then I, myself, will find that I'm one of the groups of 2s that get left behind. But not only will that not be a crime against me, it will not even be the tiniest slight against me. [/QUOTE]

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