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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5754350" data-attributes="member: 6957">I think that a lot of the rancor is reserved for WotC the corporate entity rather than for WotC the game design studio, at least in my case that is true.I do not know how much of the rhetoric in the lead up to 4e was corporate, for all I know Wyatt might just have been toeing the party line as hard as he could. It is also possible that he was the source of that party line. It is also possible that he was running off at the mouth because it was his game, like an overly zealous parent watching his kid play softball. (This last is the one I favor, with no real supporting evidence.)All that I can say for certain is that by the time 4e appeared I was already prepared to hate the game. The rules supported this belief, so my opinion was only confirmed.I know that in my case I have never vowed ne'er to so much as look at a WotC product again, but then... they have not had much that interests me in years, so that is kind of moot. (I think the last thing I bought from WotC was some Elder Evils minis - I wanted the Remorhaz.)If I had a time machine, I would like to travel back to when Peter Adkison was planning to sell WotC to <s>the Devil</s> Hasbro, grab him by the shoulders and shake him, yelling 'Don't do it!' He would, of course, have me hauled away by security, but hey! At least I would have tried! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />But that has more to do with the politics of the situation - 4e is what a whole bunch of folks want, and I cannot honestly call them wrong. I just disagree. I am willing to assume that if I had a time machine then 4e would still be 4e, that Wyatt would still have annoyed me, and that I would still not like the game. But hey, maybe it would still have the OGL....The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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