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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesM" data-source="post: 3785722" data-attributes="member: 2762">To lose me, 4E would have to have had me and I don't think it ever did. Well, there was a chance that it could have won me over. Heck, there may still be a chance, but, so far, from the little we've seen and the general attitude evinced from the developers' blogs and the Design & Development articles, I'm pretty sure that this is where I get off the D&D train and happily settle down for retirement.Despite its flaws, I'm happy with v.3.5 mechanically and, more than that, I'm happy with its evocation of and respect for the origins of D&D. I'm an older guy, pushing 40, and the kind of fantasy I read and liked as a younger man and that I still like today doesn't have a lot in common with what I'm seeing of 4E. Nothing wrong with that, of course. De gustibus and all that. Still, it's a little disappointing and my initial hope that 4E would largely be a cleaning up and simplifying of 3.5 rather than a major rewrite not only of rules but also of flavor seem to have been dashed.I say "seem," because who knows? It may be that we're getting a skewed impression of things and the designers may be trying to emphasize change rather than continuity with the past to generate buzz and interest in 4E. We shall see. Right now, I'm following news of 4E with great interest, but my feeling is that I won't be playing it, let alone buying it. It feels strangely liberating to be in this position, honestly.</blockquote>

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