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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Menexenus" data-source="post: 4118381" data-attributes="member: 8951">To OP:  You ask a fair question and deserve an honest answer.  Here's mine.  I was first introduced to D&D back in 1982 with the pink basic set, but I didn't really get into D&D seriously until college, right after 2nd edition was released.  So I enjoyed 2nd edition for a good long time - almost for its entire run.  However, by the time 3rd edition was announced, 2nd edition had grown stale for me.  I just wasn't having as much fun with it as I had in the beginning.  So, for me, the advent of 3rd edition was quite welcome.  I was very excited about the prospect, actively reading up on all the details I could find.  And once I saw the finished product, I was almost instantly won over.  My old 2nd edition DM tried to continue his game, but the rest of the group and I just couldn't stand playing 2nd edition any more once we knew what we could be playing.  I even remember the exact moment when I realized that I couldn't stand playing 2nd edition any more.  I was playing a 12th level cleric and cast a 4th level healing spell on a comrade.  I healed a total of 8 points of damage.  That was the straw that broke the camel's back - so to speak.  I just couldn't keep having fun playing a 2nd edition cleric knowing how many more options I would have if I were playing a 3rd edition cleric.So what's different this time?  Why am I so anti-4th edition?  There are two main reasons.  A) 3rd edition just doesn't seem stale or 'played out' to me in the same way that 2nd edition did when a new edition was announced before.  I'm still having fun with 3rd edition and expect to continue doing so for a long time to come.  I might be ready to try 4th edition when 4.5 is released (i.e. in about 3 years).  But for now, I have no plans to switch to 4th edition, to buy the core books, or even to spend precious time reading them.  B) I'm bitter about the fact that WotC didn't give 3rd edition a full 10 year run.  I think that cutting 3rd edition off after only 8 years was a decision based on short-term corporate greed rather than what is best for the game in the long-run.  I refuse to reward that kind of behavior and have consequently chosen to stop 'feeding the machine'.I hope this helps you understand the difference in my own mind between the last edition change and this one.  I'm not telling anyone else that they should share my opinion.  But I wanted to at least explain my opinion to those (like the OP) who asked.</blockquote>

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