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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cougent" data-source="post: 4426594" data-attributes="member: 48665">From Hater to Fence Sitter to Well...I confess I was originally one of those 4E haters just because... because I had lots of money in 3E, because I was in the middle of my own homeworld campaign setting for 3E, because it was Tuesday, just because.After the initial shock and anger withered, I quickly became a fence sitter, and pretty much have remained there ever since.  I heard things that I grudgingly had to admit I liked, and others I could still pound my chest and proclaim my hatred for (Dragonborn, looking at you); but the positives seemed to be outdistancing the negatives until just before the actual release.  Then the negative onslaught seemed to even the score once again.However, the day after release I was approached by a former player of mine who asked if I would play in a 4E game if he started one, and to my own surprise I said "yes".  It has not happened yet, and I am still not spending any money on 4E for now... and I will NEVER *rent* content on any website (DDI or otherwise), but I could very well end up playing in a 4E game any time now.Will I love it, I doubt it.  Will I hate it, I doubt that even more.  Will I make the best of it and give it a fair try, I hope so.I have no empirical evidence to back this up, other than "gut feeling", but I suspect much of the animosity is name related.  When I think of 3E as one game and 4E as a totally separate game I find my own internal stress factor tends to drop to almost nothing; but if I allow myself to get drug into the "Which version is REALLY D&D" debate, then I need my blood pressure medicine doubled.  The funny thing is I have no issues with other games... C&C, M&M, Traveler, GURPS, or anything else.  So I mentally separate the 2 *versions* and let them mutually cohabitate nicely.  I hardly even ever refer to "D&D" anymore, now they are 3E and 4E to me, and Pathfinder will be just that Pathfinder.  In fact personally I find myself actually excited about the prospect of EarthDawn 4E!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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