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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6504009" data-attributes="member: 5834">4th edition was a particularly divisive edition. I've never seen edition warring like I did when 4th edition came out. I've been around for every edition. Anyone that says any edition created a bigger schism in the D&D community than 4E doesn't really know what they're talking about. There was no more divisive edition. Pathfinder is a testament to that.5th edition has next to no edition warring other than a small group that don't like change. That is about on par with any previous edition.It has nothing do with a growing cynicism. 4th edition was divisive. It was an outlier in the history of D&D. I think in-house it has become a cautionary tale of what not to do when making a new edition of D&D.As far as the rest of your post, it's the Internet. An unknown number (in the hundreds to millions) posting their opinion. You're always going to get at least a few people that take what you say and blow it way out of proportion or distort it. It's unavoidable. The only thing you can hope for is enough moderation to keep the amount of crazy to a minimum. Heck. I know one guy that goes out of his way to troll message boards as entertainment. He even develops separate aliases he develops over time just for trolling. He doesn't troll in a direct fashion. He slowly cultivates arguments over time using his alternate alias. He spends hours of his online time doing this for his own entertainment. He considers his own form of "mind control." He likes the feeling he gets manipulating others into pointless, petty arguments where they're wasting their time arguing with him because they can't help themselves, while he laughs at them. You get all kinds posting on the Internet. It's up to you what you respond to fortunately. So you can avoid the petty arguments by avoiding responding to such discussions.</blockquote>

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