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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khaalis" data-source="post: 3756262" data-attributes="member: 2167">This is true, but unfortunately, this isn't going to happen up front for two primary reasons.1) The system has still not been finalized. It is still being written, refined, tweaked and re-written as we speak. It is difficult to give concrete examples of all that we need to know when it has yet to be finalized.2) As much as D&D is about Fantasy, we are dealing with a real world product, made by a real world company, with real world profit expectations and marketing goals. It is not in their best interest, at this point in time, to drop all the cards on the table so to speak. Its bad marketing, and thus bad business.Now do either of these make me feel all warm and fuzzy as a consumer? No. I believe they should have waited until they were a bit farther toward the "finalized" line than they are before announcing the product. However, I realize the reality of the situation. This leads me to know that I must bide my time, watch, listen, research, etc. as the new information becomes available before I make any judgment calls on the product or the decision to release the edition.What I can "Hope" for as a consumer is that the edition will live up to what it "should" be, which is a better evolution of the game. There have been MANY game systems and many alternate d20 rule-sets that have come of the OGL/SRD. I can hope that the R&D team has done a good job of seeing what was broken in 3E and done a good job at making 4E a better game. Will it happen? Only time will tell, and even then it will fall prey to the same thing as every other edition, and every other game system or rules-set to see the light of day. Some will love it, some will hate it, some won't give a rat's ... one way or the other. There is no such thing as a "Perfect" game system, or even game world for that matter. When dealing with intellectual properties - EVERYONE has their own opinion on whats is good and what works vs. what is crap.So again, overall, I say we need to simply sit back and wait. It is too early to make any kind of decision one way or the other unless you are either a hardcore Fanboy or Hater; and in these cases nothing is going to change their opinion anyway. /shrugJMHO. YMMV.</blockquote>

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