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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 4130217" data-attributes="member: 7883">I'm not sure that I agree here....how is what WotC is doing any different than what Paizo is doing?  Yes, they're taking it apart......but they're *really* doing that, so much that a fairly vocal group of people are concerned about the direction in which the game is being taken.  At the end of the day, 4E is really just the "take on D&D" that has been developed by the current batch of designers at WotC.  I'm very conscious of the fact that a lot of the hype is marketing, and plan on waiting to see the dust settle before making any decisions.  When 3E came out, it was supposed to be the one that fixed all the problems of 1st and 2nd Ed.  But now it's insufficient?I'd generally contest that there are probably few players that will agree on any edition of the game.At the end of the day, until we've all tried the 4E rules, all we have is the word of the officially sanctioned developers working for WotC as opposed to that of developers working at companies like Paizo and Green Ronin.  What makes one developer's word more valid than the other's?If I rip apart a Mustang GT to try to improve on the vehicle, and make a better car, and when I put the pieces together I've got a Civic, I'd contest that I've just wrecked a good car <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Banshee</blockquote>

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