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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuckyAdrastus" data-source="post: 5297547" data-attributes="member: 82859">Obviously, my previous post paints the anti-essentials posters with a wide brush.  Partially, that is for humor's sake, and I therefore appeneded an "IMHO."  (Because internet abbreviations clearly matter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />).So, to be clear: it is entirely possible to be anti-Essentials and not be anti-4e.However, it is my experience that if you look through most of the threads, you find the same people repeatedly taking the anti-4e, anti-WotC line from one complaint to the next.  It'd be rude and inappropriate for me to name names, but if you look to some of the regular anti-4e posters from the WotC General Discussions forums (the ones who get accused of being sock-puppets for each other) you'll see this pattern, for example.You make a good point that is it odd to see these anti-4e posters spending so much time reading about, studying about, and posting about 4e.  However, I don't think this means they should be counted as fans of 4e.  They may simply like being troublesome, or they may secretly like 4e but can't admit it to themselves ("no, I can't like this, it's too much like WoW, and it isn't cool to like that!").  Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of the anti-4e crowd?  I'm just judging their posts.</blockquote>

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