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<blockquote data-quote="antiwesley" data-source="post: 8737084" data-attributes="member: 7031616">It's not the community you're not aligned with, it's WoTC's desire to make more money on an older product. One thing I heard mentioned was that &quot;you can still use adventures from X years ago.&quot; Before long, adventures will be treated like card sets in Magic: The Money Pit. If the adventure you want to play uses out-moded rules or cannot be adapted to the modern setup, you'll have to play it on a table, not their virtual <s>scam</s> setup. I also took great offense at being labeled a &quot;lazy DM&quot; as they seem to believe most DM's are. Having been a retailer back during the 4th Ed push, I sat and listened to WOTC roll out blather after blather about stuff 'they' were doing to promote and build up the new edition. It mainly involved them doing things in Seattle, and there was NOTHING to help the retailers themselves. I sat there and wasted 6 minutes of my life listening to today's pablum pukers spew out the same type of garbage that I heard others spew with 4th Ed. It's all part of the current mindset when someone takes over an established product. We see it in TV shows, movie franchises, books, and yes, even RPGs. The current team wants to make the product THEIR product. This isn't Gary and Dave's DnD, this is whomever the current generation of, as William Gaines once put it, &quot;the usual gang of idiots.&quot; Don't like it? Don't use it. But don't be surprised in a year or two when none of this product will be available in a dead tree format. Don't use electronics at the table? Learn to use it now, or else you'll be left behind, sucker!I pity the generation that will be suckled on this new teat, for when the power is off or the Internet is down, they won't have two d6 to rub together and even know how to play on a tabletop. And like fools, many will suckle at this new teat, and claim it's the best thing since sliced bread, and they don't know how they ever lived without it. We call them &quot;suck ups&quot; or &quot;consumer zombies.&quot; 3rd Ed was the greatest thing since sliced bread until 4th came along, then that was the hot sh!t. Then 4th Ed was 'too simple' when 5th Ed was released, and now &quot;One DnD&quot; is going to be the ham-fisted hot buttered bob until they can't make any cash from it, and 6th ed will be introduced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="antiwesley, post: 8737084, member: 7031616"] It's not the community you're not aligned with, it's WoTC's desire to make more money on an older product. One thing I heard mentioned was that "you can still use adventures from X years ago." Before long, adventures will be treated like card sets in Magic: The Money Pit. If the adventure you want to play uses out-moded rules or cannot be adapted to the modern setup, you'll have to play it on a table, not their virtual [S]scam[/S] setup. I also took great offense at being labeled a "lazy DM" as they seem to believe most DM's are. Having been a retailer back during the 4th Ed push, I sat and listened to WOTC roll out blather after blather about stuff 'they' were doing to promote and build up the new edition. It mainly involved them doing things in Seattle, and there was NOTHING to help the retailers themselves. I sat there and wasted 6 minutes of my life listening to today's pablum pukers spew out the same type of garbage that I heard others spew with 4th Ed. It's all part of the current mindset when someone takes over an established product. We see it in TV shows, movie franchises, books, and yes, even RPGs. The current team wants to make the product THEIR product. This isn't Gary and Dave's DnD, this is whomever the current generation of, as William Gaines once put it, "the usual gang of idiots." Don't like it? Don't use it. But don't be surprised in a year or two when none of this product will be available in a dead tree format. Don't use electronics at the table? Learn to use it now, or else you'll be left behind, sucker! I pity the generation that will be suckled on this new teat, for when the power is off or the Internet is down, they won't have two d6 to rub together and even know how to play on a tabletop. And like fools, many will suckle at this new teat, and claim it's the best thing since sliced bread, and they don't know how they ever lived without it. We call them "suck ups" or "consumer zombies." 3rd Ed was the greatest thing since sliced bread until 4th came along, then that was the hot sh!t. Then 4th Ed was 'too simple' when 5th Ed was released, and now "One DnD" is going to be the ham-fisted hot buttered bob until they can't make any cash from it, and 6th ed will be introduced. [/QUOTE]

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