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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 4118770" data-attributes="member: 4090">Likewise.I was going to weigh in and echo Psion's recollections somewhat, but Eric's post got me to thinking that- yeah, this site (as well as the numerous other 3E tidbit sites I used to visit, that ultimately caved before the power of ENWorld <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />), probably were catering more to the pro- (or at least optimistic) 3E crowd.I wasn't hanging about in D&D Usenet crowds much in those days (save for the Mystara Mailing List, which showed both sides, but the Mystara crowd has generally been pretty civil, save for discussions about Thyatis vs. Alphatia), so I can't really speak to what the attitude was like in those locations. The internet community really wasn't nearly as widespread at the time as it is now (in large part due to what Eric, and later Morrus and everyone else have created with ENWorld). So it is hard to judge.My own recollection, bearing the above in mind, is that there was definitely anticipation and optimism, with a certain degree of skepticism (Attacks of Opportunity? What are those?), but I think due in large part to TSR going under, the community as a whole was glad to have something to hang on to, even if it was just new products they could alter to fit their previous edition games.It also seemed to me that there was a lot more substantive information coming in various forms- both through the 3E articles in Dragon (which started, IIRC, about a year prior to its release) as well as through leaks from the playtests (which I'm surprised still haven't been coming out. I guess rumors that the NDA was being loosened were incorrect).I feel the same way, and have avoided the RPG sections (4E and General forums) of the site for a while now as a result (pretty much just posting/reading the Media and Software forums). With Paizo's announcement, I've started to edge back into the RPG forums because I'm heartened by the alternative to 4E, but yeah- still bugs (and is far too easy to fall prey to perpetuating it, even in small degrees.)</blockquote>

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