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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4926908" data-attributes="member: 22779">Therein lies the crux.&nbsp; I don't believe that people came to the table from a position of neutrality.&nbsp; I think people came to the table openly hostile (particularly after the debacle of the Dragon/Dungeon thing) and made finding offense their primary goal.Not everyone mind you.&nbsp; But a significant and more importantly, very loud number.Funny you would mention Terry Brooks in there considering his best selling novel is simply a pastiche of LotR.&nbsp; He may not have taken the title of Lord of the Rings, but, he certainly nicked the plot, characters and setting.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Again, at the end of the day though, who's fault is it?&nbsp; You're NEVER going to win when the girlfriend asks you &quot;does this make me look fat?&quot;&nbsp; In the same way, I think WOTC could have groveled at the feet of every earlier edtion, debasing themselves frequently, and people would still have been saying, &quot;You are hating on my playstyle&quot;.Windjammer - tell you what.&nbsp; Go back and READ that blog post.&nbsp; Actually take the time to read it and then take the time to search the forums to find the commentary on it.&nbsp; And then come back and tell us how insulted you were.There's nothing there.&nbsp; Really.&nbsp; There isn't.&nbsp; People were so eager to be pissed off at anything that it didn't matter what WOTC said.&nbsp; They could say the sky was blue and people would be pissed that they didn't say cerulean.&nbsp; &quot;How dare you mock my color choices!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 4926908, member: 22779"] Therein lies the crux. I don't believe that people came to the table from a position of neutrality. I think people came to the table openly hostile (particularly after the debacle of the Dragon/Dungeon thing) and made finding offense their primary goal. Not everyone mind you. But a significant and more importantly, very loud number. Funny you would mention Terry Brooks in there considering his best selling novel is simply a pastiche of LotR. He may not have taken the title of Lord of the Rings, but, he certainly nicked the plot, characters and setting. :) Again, at the end of the day though, who's fault is it? You're NEVER going to win when the girlfriend asks you "does this make me look fat?" In the same way, I think WOTC could have groveled at the feet of every earlier edtion, debasing themselves frequently, and people would still have been saying, "You are hating on my playstyle". Windjammer - tell you what. Go back and READ that blog post. Actually take the time to read it and then take the time to search the forums to find the commentary on it. And then come back and tell us how insulted you were. There's nothing there. Really. There isn't. People were so eager to be pissed off at anything that it didn't matter what WOTC said. They could say the sky was blue and people would be pissed that they didn't say cerulean. "How dare you mock my color choices!" [/QUOTE]

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