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<blockquote data-quote="Odhanan" data-source="post: 3822734" data-attributes="member: 12324">I just got to get it out of my chest.I've been sort of concerned when the announcement was made. Not about the rules change themselves, they seem fine enough, and if that's going towards a simplification of the game as a whole, I'm all for it, but about the DI, Dragon, Dungeon, all that jazz. I sort of became mildly disinterested in the whole thing after a while. Sort of like &quot;alright, discussing about stuff we won't know anything about until May... been there, done that&quot;. Let's get the books already. And then, during the last few days, I've read a lot here and on the WotC boards. I read about paying for virtual minis on the virtual tabletop. Of &quot;everything's core&quot;. Of &quot;a PH, DMG and MM a year&quot;... and I'm starting to get really worried. I love this game. I feel like it could turn into something I wouldn't recognize at all. I can't help but think about Magic: The Gathering's marketing techniques, and I feel like all these people crying about how &quot;they make D&amp;D more like MMOs&quot; (which I find produces to complete reverse effect to what's initially intended - it makes the idea of competing with MMOs a given in D&amp;D culture instead of repelling it, but that's not the point of the post). I'm tired of teasers. I want some facts. When I get some facts, I get the first online articles of Dragon. I still feel just as concerned as before. I'm worried. I'm not talking about the rules, again. I'm talking about all that surrounds it (marketing, DI, virtual tabletop). I'm really uneasy about all that stuff. It feels like even if I dig the new core books, I won't be able to keep up with all the changes around them because well... I won't want to, to tell you the truth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Odhanan, post: 3822734, member: 12324"] I just got to get it out of my chest. I've been sort of concerned when the announcement was made. Not about the rules change themselves, they seem fine enough, and if that's going towards a simplification of the game as a whole, I'm all for it, but about the DI, Dragon, Dungeon, all that jazz. I sort of became mildly disinterested in the whole thing after a while. Sort of like "alright, discussing about stuff we won't know anything about until May... been there, done that". Let's get the books already. And then, during the last few days, I've read a lot here and on the WotC boards. I read about paying for virtual minis on the virtual tabletop. Of "everything's core". Of "a PH, DMG and MM a year"... and I'm starting to get really worried. I love this game. I feel like it could turn into something I wouldn't recognize at all. I can't help but think about [I]Magic: The Gathering[/I]'s marketing techniques, and I feel like all these people crying about how "they make D&D more like MMOs" (which I find produces to complete reverse effect to what's initially intended - it makes the idea of competing with MMOs a given in D&D culture instead of repelling it, but that's not the point of the post). I'm tired of teasers. I want some facts. When I get some facts, I get the first online articles of Dragon. I still feel just as concerned as before. I'm worried. I'm not talking about the rules, again. I'm talking about all that surrounds it (marketing, DI, virtual tabletop). I'm really uneasy about all that stuff. It feels like even if I dig the new core books, I won't be able to keep up with all the changes around them because well... I won't want to, to tell you the truth. [/QUOTE]

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