Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9399865" data-attributes="member: 6796661">As someone who wasn't, I've stepped in the poo quite a bit, mostly 10 years ago when I was getting back into the hobby.Edition wars never made much sense to me, but I'm sure that has to do with the fact that the last D&amp;D game I played before getting back into the hobby was 5e.Even in the late 80s, when Warhammer became the main game I played, there was a minimal amount of pooping on other games, because the typical teenage nerd arguments comparing the mechanics of one system over another, but that led mainly to us creating our own game systems rather than rallying behind one or the other. I was also fortunate to have a large group of gaming friends and we played a lot of different systems. The feelings some expressed about 4e and others warning about the &quot;edition wars&quot; was alien enough to me, but the debates and some of the flame posts surrounding the 2024 rules changes is a whole new level of pettiness of small differences being put on display. If it wasn't against the spirit of this forum, I'd be tempted to respond with laughing emojis on half the posts in some threads because I find it all quite silly. I don't want to feed my inner troll and make fun of what others obviously find important, but if these were real life arguments being made around my IRL life friends, it would be met with ridicule. I mean it may be ugly to pull out the adult real-problems card, and make fun of people who take unimportant things too seriously, but some people seem to need a reality check.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9399865, member: 6796661"] As someone who wasn't, I've stepped in the poo quite a bit, mostly 10 years ago when I was getting back into the hobby. Edition wars never made much sense to me, but I'm sure that has to do with the fact that the last D&D game I played before getting back into the hobby was 5e. Even in the late 80s, when Warhammer became the main game I played, there was a minimal amount of pooping on other games, because the typical teenage nerd arguments comparing the mechanics of one system over another, but that led mainly to us creating our own game systems rather than rallying behind one or the other. I was also fortunate to have a large group of gaming friends and we played a lot of different systems. The feelings some expressed about 4e and others warning about the "edition wars" was alien enough to me, but the debates and some of the flame posts surrounding the 2024 rules changes is a whole new level of pettiness of small differences being put on display. If it wasn't against the spirit of this forum, I'd be tempted to respond with laughing emojis on half the posts in some threads because I find it all quite silly. I don't want to feed my inner troll and make fun of what others obviously find important, but if these were real life arguments being made around my IRL life friends, it would be met with ridicule. I mean it may be ugly to pull out the adult real-problems card, and make fun of people who take unimportant things too seriously, but some people seem to need a reality check. [/QUOTE]

Verification