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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7665555" data-attributes="member: 59082">[MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION], great post - I really enjoyed reading about your feel for the game, which I really respect and find a lot of resonance with. I think you are being perhaps a bit overly defensive and assuming that I'm doing something that I'm not intending to do. Please take this on good faith - I'm not trying to sway your view, not trying to change how you feel for the game, what your preferences are, or tell you how you should think. I can understand how you'd feel this way, especially with your remarks about your experience over the last 6 years. Maybe you're assuming I'm just more of the same old cavalry in different form, I don't know. But again, that isn't my intention.Actually, this is an element of this whole discussion that I find problematic - when people insist that you're either on one side or the other of the 3E-4E edition war (I'm not saying that you're doing this, just speaking in general). I've found that problematic because I've never felt strongly in one camp or the other. But I am interested in the "meta-conversation," on the history of the game, on the differences between the editions--both in terms of rules and feel--and on how different people resonate with different editions. This sometimes veers dangerously close to "edition warry" territory, but I am very careful to skirt the edge and it is never my intention to troll or attack or incite skirmishes. But I do think that these sorts of conversations can and should be had without going into outright combat, so I appreciate this back-and-forth with you.Anyhow, not really sure what more to say at this point except to reiterate what I said in the first paragraph of this post. I maintain the view that I stated previously, that I see D&D as akin to a Platonic archetype, and different people--depending upon their individual mentality and taste, as well as the generational zeitgeist--resonate with different versions (or editions) of the game to varying degrees. It would be foolish to say that one edition captures the archetype more fully in an objective sense; I think the most we can say is to what degree different editions of the game capture that essence for as many people as possible - which is not a qualitative judgement. I mean, clearly popularity and quality--while not being mutually exclusive--aren't necessarily intrinsically connected.</blockquote>

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