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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7935424" data-attributes="member: 5142">I think that the best way to approach this is by showing some basic human decency, empathy towards others, and learning how to be an adult, which admittedly not all adults in our hobby know how to properly do. It's being able to say, "I am glad that you like this game. It's not quite to my liking, as I prefer these games instead. But don't let that stop you from enjoying the game that you enjoy playing." This can diffuse a LOT of the tension right there. But this rarely happened in the Edition Wars or, if it did happen, it was frequently shouted over by a lot of "4e is not D&D." I also wonder what would have happened if WotC had made the decision to support multiple editions. So there would be a team that would continue writing and supporting for 3E and another team supporting 4E, much as B/X and Advanced. Where would we be now in our hobby? How much less metaphorical spilt blood would there have been? The flooding of message boards did include a lot of harassment and some cyber-bullying. A lot of D&D message boards at this time were not some tame Wonderland of milquetoast disagreement about the game. It was pretty darn toxic, and it turned a lot of people off D&D and 4e.Ummm... when is it not? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?    o_O"  data-smilie="12"data-shortname="o_O" /></blockquote>

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