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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5469817" data-attributes="member: 73683">Please do!I have other areas of my life that contain things I am passionate about. I have experienced transitions wherein others made changes to a product I enjoyed that I disagreed with, or disliked. And when those changes meant that I no longer enjoyed what was being offered, I accepted it and moved on. I did not go online and vocally complain about it, deride the product's creators for perceived irresponsibility or call them false, or demand that they cater to my personal whims.(On a related note, I'm also a Pathfinder fan - not of the system, but of the product line and setting - and was disappointed by Paizo's decision not to support 4e. When I first heard of this, I posted to their forums encouraging them to support 4e, even if in small ways, but when it became clear that would not be happening, I accepted it. I certainly don't bear any ill-will towards the Paizo guys. And, instead of getting upset about the whole thing, I just decided I'd do something I enjoyed, so I started converting Paizo's material to 4e on my own, and then made that material publicly available so that the many Pathfinder fans who were playing 4e could do the same. See what happens when you choose not to see it as someone else's responsibility to provide you with enjoyment?)Similarly, when D&D 5e (or whatever) eventually hits, you will not see me anywhere on the internet demanding continued 4e support, or implying that the 5e design team is negligent for their focus.There is a tiny, tiny chance that I will find myself unable to appreciate whatever the game becomes, and will not participate in its new edition, in which case I will find another way to spend my leisure time (whether it's continuing to play 4e, or otherwise). But, in all reasonable likelihood, I will be able to appreciate the design and product choices made in this hypothetical new edition, because I know that the guys who make D&D are solid, passionate, reasonable folk with level heads on their shoulders. And, in all reasonable likelihood, I will wave goodbye to 4e with the fondest of farewells (just as I did for two previous editions; heck, to wrap up 3.5 I ran a brief crazy gestalt campaign designed to let everyone fulfill their unaddressed powergaming desires <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" />), and will wholeheartedly embrace whatever comes next, and I will have an absolute blast doing so.So, really, hold onto that one. Heck, hold onto this post, too. I suspect that there are, in fact, a fair number of 4e fans (and probably some less vocal 3e/2e/1e/whatever fans as well) on this board who have very similar takes on the whole issue. It's really kind of nice to just be able to enjoy what I like without concerning myself with whether or not I feel as though I'm being treated properly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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