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<blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5726128" data-attributes="member: 73683"><p>I'm not sure where the hell this came from. I was talking about nuts because you brought up nuts.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, I wonder why that is!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, it is. It stretches credulity to the breaking point to hear someone say "I love 3.5, but 4e is terrible and I refuse to play it!" or "I love 4e, but 3.5 is terrible and I refuse to play it!" or any other such claim regarding two different editions. They're all D&D, and the mechanical differences between editions are very small compared to the mechanical similarities. To make matters worse, the mechanical differences that any given person <em>cares</em> about are going to be an even <em>smaller</em> subset. You can tell the same stories and have the same adventures in almost any edition of D&D.</p><p></p><p>So it's fine to have edition preferences, but if you (general you, not you in particular) <strong><em>purposefully remove yourself from a group just because that group decides to play an edition of D&D that is a little different from the edition of D&D you most enjoy</em></strong>, I have very little sympathy for your "plight."</p><p></p><p>No one is allergic to 4e if they were happy with 3.5, and no one is allergic to 3.5 if they were happy with 4e. I think what you're describing is simply the result of some unpleasant flaws of character that are all-too-widespread in the tabletop gaming community (and, I'd argue, the gamer community at-large).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannager, post: 5726128, member: 73683"] I'm not sure where the hell this came from. I was talking about nuts because you brought up nuts. Yes, I wonder why that is! Yes, it is. It stretches credulity to the breaking point to hear someone say "I love 3.5, but 4e is terrible and I refuse to play it!" or "I love 4e, but 3.5 is terrible and I refuse to play it!" or any other such claim regarding two different editions. They're all D&D, and the mechanical differences between editions are very small compared to the mechanical similarities. To make matters worse, the mechanical differences that any given person [I]cares[/I] about are going to be an even [I]smaller[/I] subset. You can tell the same stories and have the same adventures in almost any edition of D&D. So it's fine to have edition preferences, but if you (general you, not you in particular) [B][I]purposefully remove yourself from a group just because that group decides to play an edition of D&D that is a little different from the edition of D&D you most enjoy[/I][/B], I have very little sympathy for your "plight." No one is allergic to 4e if they were happy with 3.5, and no one is allergic to 3.5 if they were happy with 4e. I think what you're describing is simply the result of some unpleasant flaws of character that are all-too-widespread in the tabletop gaming community (and, I'd argue, the gamer community at-large). [/QUOTE]
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