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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5507631" data-attributes="member: 7006">I'm just passing on the same advice I always do to people who can't make up their minds.  Either you want to play 4E or you don't.  What the company itself does should have no impact on that decision whatsoever.If you want to play it, great!  Get a group together and play it.  But don't use the excuse that you don't like what the company that produces the game is doing to be your deciding factor, because in my opinion that IS stupid.  The game is the game.  Either you want to play it, or you don't.And I'd say the same thing to someone who (for example) ordinarily would read a particular comic or book except that they don't like the author's politics.  You know what?  Nobody is EVER going to match what you are looking for point-for-point, so unless you don't intend to buy/read/play/engage anything ever again, get over it.  Enjoy the item you enjoy and stop wasting time worrying about all the extraneous stuff.  Because I guarantee you, the game company, author, publisher etc. etc. isn't doing what they're doing to make you happy.  They care about the "readership", not "Cryndo".Then don't play it then.  If you don't want to use Wizards of the Coast products because you don't like their policies... then man up and don't use ANY part of the 4E game.  But don't be all wishy-washy and only play the baseline 4E because you really like the system, but then go trawling around for non-WotC supplements because that way you can feel as though you're not really supporting the company.Guess what?  If you're playing 4E... you're supporting Wizards of the Coast.  No ifs, ands, or buts.  You are doing your part to keep THEIR game active, and inspiring YOUR players to enjoy their game, and thus perhaps inspire them to buy some WotC products themselves.  It might be small support, but it's support nonetheless.  And if you can't get as far as "no support"... then after that point it doesn't matter how much or how little support you give them.  So get over it and play the game with as much or as little 4E stuff as you like, because it's a good and fun game.  I would applaud you for that.Sorry I didn't help you.  But not every post made in this thread was going to do that.  But if you post looking for suggestions, you have to be prepared to get them on all sides of an issue.</blockquote>

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