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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5894346" data-attributes="member: 98255">And this is exactly where I find myself now with 5e on the horizon. There is little I can do to change WotC's direction on 5e as an individual, but at the same time, they can't break into my house and burn my books, nor can they uninstall my offline (and illegally updated) tools; I can keep playing 4e. If I don't like 5e, that's probably what I'll do, until I find something I like better. If someone finds a way to put out a 4e clone under the OGL, so much the better (it's being actively worked on).I don't know. In 2007, I was very anti-WotC, and ready to bail on D&D entirely. I was actively looking for a new game; my group and I were tired of the warts, the system mastery, the imbalances at higher levels, the ridiculous prep time, the broken math, and on and on. I tried every D20 variant I could get my hands on, including E6 and the Pathfinder Alpha/Beta, Arcana Unearthed, the Books of Experimental Might, etc, and none of them fixed the issues or pushed the right buttons. I was, at the time, leaning toward using BRP, or several other runners-up to replace D&D at my gametable. The last thing I wanted any part of was 4e.Then one of the guys in the group made us try it. It took me a little while to come around and see the merits of the system, but eventually, it just "clicked." The rest is history. I'm not saying that my experience is universal, but I assure you that it is far from unique. I am well aware that not everyone would have made such a jump; some people play whatever the "current" flavour is, and some play just because it is called "D&D", and they have their reasons, I'm sure. That said, I'm willing to bet that many of the folks that bailed on 3.x for 4e because they were looking for something different still would have found 4e-by-a-different-name. This is a pretty decent analogy, actually.</blockquote>

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