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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4749233" data-attributes="member: 64209">I'll be the jerk.YES! I absolutely love D&D.  I love it as my favorite hobby. I care how it is treated by those in control of it (WotC), those who add to it (3pp), and those who detract from it (pirates, trolls, and publishers of poor material). I loved second edition, loved third more, and find fouth a good direction, and a quality product (though not for me, sorry). BUT... I'm saddened and frightened by where the captain of the ship has been steering it (possibly drunk?) lately. (pdfs, D&Di materials promised in July for August, but still not out, the direction of the e-mags, the business model, the change of the WotC website away from web enhancements, the delays of the GSL, the lack of emphasis on 3pps, and so on). I wanted to post this, not to threadcrap, but to emphasize that one can ABSOLUTELY LOVE D&D while still feeling the effects of the recent situations. I'm not a glass half full guy...I wish I could be, I'd be happier. So, yeah, I LOVE D&D (I likely spend 20-40 hours a week on the hobby, unpaid...I own several bookcases full of books...I frequent multiple message boards). That only means that the recent events are that much more grave for me. Sorry to bring down the joyride with my "negative vibes"...but they're real, and the OP did ask what we thought. My thoughts, in a nutshell: I love D&D, and I hope it can recover from its present state.   EDIT: And I'll add: D&D is so many different things to me. Green Ronin's Freeport, Paradigm Press's Arcanis, WotC's Eberron, Privateer Press's Iron Kingdoms, the online conversions of Dark Sun and Ravenloft, etc.  Nothing is going to take away those things from me.</blockquote>

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