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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6282443" data-attributes="member: 11697">I've been quite open in the past about particular flavor changes that I didn't like: 3e FR going from the Great Wheel to a nominally distinct cosmology largely based on the FR gods' domains in the Great Wheel, with the change being retconned in. Orcs going from LE to CE without little explanation while Gruumsh and all of their dead souls were still in LE/LN Acheron. Names of some of the unique guardinals being changed in 3e because someone didn't like the previous name in 2e. 3e hand-waving away the role and place of the Deep Ethereal and some other tinkering with the Great Wheel. I didn't like those and I did complain about them at the time, loudly and yes, obnoxiously in some cases.Hussar, it isn't like people never complained about various flavor changes in 3e or any other edition, it's that by comparison to any other edition, as I see it, 4e completely and totally went off the rails with what seemed IMO like a deliberate attempt to sever itself from the flavor of previous editions of D&D. As a result of that it's the largest and most frequent target, on top of being the most recent edition and therefor getting the freshest complaint storm.</blockquote>