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<blockquote data-quote="FadedC" data-source="post: 4117062" data-attributes="member: 55463">There are a lot more people posting to the EN world boards now then we ever had in the 3e days. I'd estimate maybe 10 times as many. This has a huge effect on the tone of the boards as the more people you have the more likely they are to be dominated by extreme opinions. One only has to go look at the official World of Warcraft Boards (or better yet don't) to see what happens when you have too many gamers posting on one forum. Pretty much every change they make there gets 100 posts about how it's horrible and will destroy the game. It's only through the excellent job the moderators do here that these boards remain as civil and mature as they have.With that said, yeah we pretty much saw all the same complaints about 3e. It was being dumbed down. It was being turned into a video game (this was pre WoW so they complained it was becoming diablo). It just &quot;wasn't D&amp;D&quot; anymore. You should have seen the first 20 or so reviews of the PHB on amazon. About half of them were vicious attacks on how awful it was.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FadedC, post: 4117062, member: 55463"] There are a lot more people posting to the EN world boards now then we ever had in the 3e days. I'd estimate maybe 10 times as many. This has a huge effect on the tone of the boards as the more people you have the more likely they are to be dominated by extreme opinions. One only has to go look at the official World of Warcraft Boards (or better yet don't) to see what happens when you have too many gamers posting on one forum. Pretty much every change they make there gets 100 posts about how it's horrible and will destroy the game. It's only through the excellent job the moderators do here that these boards remain as civil and mature as they have. With that said, yeah we pretty much saw all the same complaints about 3e. It was being dumbed down. It was being turned into a video game (this was pre WoW so they complained it was becoming diablo). It just "wasn't D&D" anymore. You should have seen the first 20 or so reviews of the PHB on amazon. About half of them were vicious attacks on how awful it was. [/QUOTE]

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