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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2404279" data-attributes="member: 15651">As the person who first mentioned 4e in this thread, I would like to clarify that when I did so, it was a tounge-in-cheek reference to all the recent 4e threads and the thread about Mattel buying Hasbro rumor and the rampant speculation that started.&nbsp; I like much of Monte's work and were I in the market for a new campaign setting, I would certainly check out Ptolus, but I would stop short of saying he is a god-figure in the gaming world and must be excited by anything he writes.&nbsp; In the end he succeeded in one thing - building hype for one of his projects, something I would say he is very good at.&nbsp; There is nothing wrong with that, as long as it is understood that until the finished product is out and measured against what exists, that is all it is, hype, and the backlash if the product does not live up to expectations is often greater than the hype.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 2404279, member: 15651"] As the person who first mentioned 4e in this thread, I would like to clarify that when I did so, it was a tounge-in-cheek reference to all the recent 4e threads and the thread about Mattel buying Hasbro rumor and the rampant speculation that started. I like much of Monte's work and were I in the market for a new campaign setting, I would certainly check out Ptolus, but I would stop short of saying he is a god-figure in the gaming world and must be excited by anything he writes. In the end he succeeded in one thing - building hype for one of his projects, something I would say he is very good at. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as it is understood that until the finished product is out and measured against what exists, that is all it is, hype, and the backlash if the product does not live up to expectations is often greater than the hype. [/QUOTE]

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