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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3925399" data-attributes="member: 29398">Grognards aren't killing D+D.  They're trying to keep it alive.Everyone who's ever played the game, including me, has a particular edition or ruleset or collection of houserules that is their preferred version of the game.  Mine happens to be a modified version of 1e, but that doesn't stop me from paying close attention to new developments as the modification process will never be complete and good ideas are hard to find. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And 2e was close enough to 1e that I could take what was put out and tweak it; so no harm there, and I kept buying some of the releases (though not all, there were just too many).Then 3e came, and I became a grognard overnight without even realizing it.  Why?  Because *all* official or quasi-official support ceased for anything relevant to the game I was playing.  All of us were expected to cast everything we had aside, and start over; it was analagous to a car company saying "we've just released our shiny new 2000 model, and as of now we will not repair or maintain any models 1999 or earlier".  Did this cause resentment?  Obviously.  did it in the end matter?  Not so much, as 3e did so enormously well.Now, however, when lots and lots of people have found 3.x to be their preferred version of the game, the same thing is about to happen to them....and the same resentment is brewing; only somewhat more in advance as so many of us saw how the 2e-3e changeover went.  Hence, another generation of grognards are preparing to start doing their own repairs and maintenance...and keep the game - as they know and love it - alive.  And though I'm no huge fan of 3e, I can certainly understand the sentiment involved.Lane-"I should name my next character Grognard"-fan</blockquote>

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