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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khairn" data-source="post: 3970126" data-attributes="member: 20153">I enjoyed the article and liked the concept.  Praise for the designers & 4E that I admit has been rare from me.But the need to build the justification for the changes on the bodies of earlier editions is still a pet-peeve.    I agree with John Snow above when he says  I'm not saying that I dont like the Great Wheel or Planescape, as I very much do.  But I agree that no setting flavor is the "be-all and end-all of D&D".  As gamers , we each create the worlds we want to play in, and no vision is the sole way it has to be.  That is why comments such as these from the article ... that refer to the vision of earlier D&D as a poorly healed wound ... tick me off.  If WotC wants to sell me on 4E, great, I'm all ears & eyes.  But each time they do so by saying they are fixing something that has been broken or scarred for many years, they try to raise themselves up, by casting the earlier editions, and those gamers who enjoy playing them, down.</blockquote>