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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6075585" data-attributes="member: 2067">I think this is a key point that sometimes gets lost.4e, like any edition, was designed in part as a reaction against the excesses of the edition that came before. What this meant in practice was that 4e took the most popular edition of D&D to date...and designed a game to satisfy people who didn't like it all that much. That in itself wouldn't necessarily be a Big Deal, if 4e had reached back across the aisle, if 4e would've taken the changes and improvements and woven them back into the fabric of the game as it was known. But in the pursuit of goals that we can only guess at (my guess is "brand identity," "balance," and "elegance," with perhaps "we need a sales boost!" time sensitivity thrown in and "ooh, shiny indie game conceits!" icing on the cake), 4e told you, in Mearls' words, that the right way to play guitar was to play thrash metal. They took a guitar manufacturer that made many types of guitars, and limited them only to the "right" type of guitar.Yeah, some people "drifted" it pretty ably to play the kind of music they wanted to play. And others didn't want to play anything other than thrash metal, anyway. But the music fans were told to start playing thrash metal, or to find a different guitar shop.Fortunately, Paizo opened a shop down the corner for them. Sure, it mostly sold sheet music, and its models could often use some tuning, but at least they recognized that people could not like Slayer and still be music fans. I mean, I like Slayer just fine. But I also like Neutral Milk Hotel, Jimmy Hendrix, The Ramones, The Pixies, and Iron & Wine (among others). A guitar shop that tells me that the only way to REALLY enjoy music is to play thrash metal isn't going to do much more than alienate me, as awesome as Slayer is.And now:[video=youtube;K6_zsJ8KPP0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_zsJ8KPP0[/video]</blockquote>

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