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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 5350178" data-attributes="member: 49613">This may sound strange, but one thing I really like about Essentials is the humility.A lot of the puffery surrounding 4.0, including (indeed, especially) things that were said on this very board, made one feel like they were being dressed down by Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross. I'm a grognard, I admit it. But I don't want to be told &quot;Hit the bricks, a-hole, this game is better than you.&quot; Probably that's not how it was intended, but that's sometimes how it came off. And of course the cheer squad with all their &quot;butcher the sacred cows!&quot; rhetoric that was usually devoid of any substance or reason. You'd have thought it was the dang French Revolution.Now, they're actually marketing to me. Elmore on the Red Box. Warduke on the website. Fiend Folio art in the little Youtube/Hulu commercial. And the tone of the puffery in the articles is &quot;Here, try this! We think it's good and we love D&amp;D from the old days.&quot; I have been with D&amp;D since I was 8 years old. So yes, WOTC, I frakking deserve it. Thank you. As as reward, I will actually buy the stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 5350178, member: 49613"] This may sound strange, but one thing I really like about Essentials is the humility. A lot of the puffery surrounding 4.0, including (indeed, especially) things that were said on this very board, made one feel like they were being dressed down by Alec Baldwin's character in [I]Glengarry Glen Ross[/I]. I'm a grognard, I admit it. But I don't want to be told "Hit the bricks, a-hole, this game is better than you." Probably that's not how it was intended, but that's sometimes how it came off. And of course the cheer squad with all their "butcher the sacred cows!" rhetoric that was usually devoid of any substance or reason. You'd have thought it was the dang French Revolution. Now, they're actually marketing [I]to me[/I]. Elmore on the Red Box. Warduke on the website. Fiend Folio art in the little Youtube/Hulu commercial. And the tone of the puffery in the articles is "Here, try this! We think it's good and we love D&D from the old days." I have been with D&D since I was 8 years old. So yes, WOTC, I frakking deserve it. Thank you. As as reward, I will actually buy the stuff. [/QUOTE]

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