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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9270689" data-attributes="member: 22779">Oh, and I'm sure that will happen.  And that's fine.  I just rather hope though that the 5e-grognard community doesn't turn out so toxic that they need to yuck in everyone else's yum every single time WotC bangs out a new book or whatever.  If the 5e grognard community goes off and does a Dragonsfoot, creating a vibrant, healthy community that keeps cheerleading it's own preferences without pooping in everyone else's cornflakes, that's the best result we can hope for.  Everyone goes off and plays the games they love.  Fantastic.I am afraid, though, of the 5e-grognard community being far more like the 3e-grognard community, turning incredibly toxic and being completely incapable of letting other people enjoy something different, like we saw with the release of 4e.  Particularly since there are a number of people who feel the incessant need to bang the "WotC is bad" drum endlessly, and will use any sort of perceived separation of different communities as tacit agreement with their issue du jour.  "Oh, you are still playing 5e, that must mean that you think WOtC is the worst thing in the world!  See how those guys hate 2024?  That's because everyone hates WotC and isn't WotC just the worst?"Having had to go through that for freaking YEARS with 4e, I really hope that this time around, people who want to stick with 2014 can do so without endlessly telling me what's wrong with the things that I like.</blockquote>

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