I was "booed" for even showing the 4e Core books

[Greylock]

I've personally displayed such behavior, but it was done in jest, and I wonder if this booing was the same. Did they honestly get upset and offended at 4e, or was it just standard peanut gallery antics?

Seriously, people are allowed to vocally dislike things.

I've been wanting to ask this same question from post #1. And yes, people are allowed to dislike things and speak their mind, as long as they are being polite, and when I picture the scenario from the OP, I imagine it with giggles going on.

 

[scruffygrognard]

I find it amusing that a game is called simulationist when you can't even use a spear one-handed.

Sure you can... use a shortspear.
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I wasn't trying to feed a 3rd edition vs. 4th edition flamewar with my observations... I was just relating what happened with my group.

As for "simulationist charm" being overrated (as Engilbrand pointed out) ... I agree to some extent. That's why I play C&C as a backup game when I want a game less bound by multitudinous rules. 3rd edition can easily get bogged down in its having a rule for EVERY situation.

That said, I still prefer it to 4th edition BUT can see why others wouldn't feel that way.

 

[doctorhook]

I figured that I should chime in, since it's been a few months since our first adventure with 4e. A few people in our group picked up the 4e books when they came out and we decided to give it a whirl. I ran a really simple demo adventure for them one night. I haven't had such a generally negative reaction to a rule set in years. Opinions from the group ranged from a luke warm "this is kinda ok" to one player standing up mid game, tearing up his character sheet and pronouncing that he was finished for the night.

...

Behaving childishly is always a good sign in a player. Not.

 

[Fifth Element]

Opinions from the group ranged from a luke warm "this is kinda ok" to one player standing up mid game, tearing up his character sheet and pronouncing that he was finished for the night.

I remember doing something vaguely like this once. I was 11 at the time, I believe.

 

[Imaro]

All I'm gonna say is, what's the big deal? They booed a game, not the actual poster. I could see if they had booed when he first stood up or at his first sentence, but it honestly sounds like all they were doing is ribbing his choice of edition. I mean it happens in sports, or basically anything where there are fans and competition, all the time and it's not taken as a slight against the particular players that play for the team, or even the fans of that team...though again some can get really serious about it.

On the issue of "childish" behavior, it's funny to me how quickly some people give WotC latitude with poop jokes and thinly veiled ribbing of the fans of both editions in the Red Dragon thread(which honestly didn't bother me at all)...but some fans booing an edition, or a player ripping his sheet up in "protest" of an edition is "childish"...kettle here's pot, pot here's kettle.

 

[Fenes]

Behaving childishly is always a good sign in a player. Not.

What's so childish about this? It's making a statement, like walking out of a movie you don't enjoy.

 

[Imaro]

What's so childish about this? It's making a statement, like walking out of a movie you don't enjoy.

Yeah, it's kinda funny when you think about it...he's like a geek samurai, who (instead of committing sepuku on himself in protest) committed sepuku with his character in the game as the ultimate protest.

 

[Fenes]

Yeah, it's kinda funny when you think about it...he's like a geek samurai, who (instead of committing sepuku on himself in protest) committed sepuku with his character in the game as the ultimate protest.

I don't get this. All he did was tearing up a piece of paper (presumably to throw it away). What are you reading into this?

 

[Imaro]

I don't get this. All he did was tearing up a piece of paper (presumably to throw it away). What are you reading into this?

It was a joke (I guess the internet sux for conveying this) Since I find the image of a "geek samurai" ripping his sheet up in protest for not liking the game kinda funny. In other words, I think it was funny, not really childish.

 

[Fenes]

I remember doing something vaguely like this once. I was 11 at the time, I believe.

So, what else did you do with charactersheets to a game you didn't want to play anymore? Burial with full military honors? Burned them ritually in a shrine and scattered the ashes into the river? Sealed them in plastic and kept them in your safe?