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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5298078" data-attributes="member: 4720">Picky... picky... picky... <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" />I think you know what I meant, though.In any case, I haven't met a 10 year old in years who wouldn't be clamoring for more options 10 minutes after we finish our first game.Meh.  I'm doggedly pro-4e, neutral on WotC, and lukewarm on essentials.  I don't fit in a simple box, but that's not really allowed.  The minute I post a slightly negative stance on something as specific as a single Essentials rule, people jump out of the woodwork to accuse me of being a 4e hater, a "4e grognard", or anti-corporate... sometimes all 3 in the same post, which is some serious linguistic ju-jitsu.  On the other hand, when I say something positive about Essentials, people jump out of the woodwork to accuse me of being a corporate tool, insufficiently old skool, and all kinds of other nonsense.  People who read and respond to the post in its entirety are vanishingly rare.  Frequently, they'll quote a single sentence out of context and misread it entirely.The content of a post is largely irrelevant unless you're very well known in the community.  People read enough of a given post to see what "side" you're on and assume they know where you stand from there.  There is no room for subtlety of thought or complicated positions in most of these threads.</blockquote>

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