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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 6181645" data-attributes="member: 78357">You were obviously not frequenting the same establishments I was. The 1E/2E split hit my later college game group and it was very tense for a while. We finally got to the point of using handwaving/houseruling to just use whatever from whichever. At the FLGS is was also tense, but people were a lot more vocal and up-front with the bulletin board postings. With 3E, it got worse. I had moved a few times and still vistied friend in the previous cities and went to the game stores also. The actual animosity amonst groups was big face-to-face. While it's only the occasional troll or two these days, yeah, it was entire groups and frequent then. The internet is simply a lot bigger these days, with more people using it so we see "more" people's discourse, especially if we were with fairly insular groups back then. . There was data presented on another board that the entire number of internet users IN THE WORLD (business, government and everything) when 3E came out is about 2/3 of the Facebook users today.</blockquote>