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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7754270" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>OK, I hear you about Star Wars. I haven't loved anything since Return of the Jedi.</p><p></p><p>But Star Wars and D&D are different in a way that makes all the difference. Star Wars has a canonical story with a limited number of options in the form of films. D&D has many worlds, different ways of playing the game and making it your own. Having a piss-poor actor(s) play Anakin Skywalker "taints" the legacy of Darth Vader; you can't ignore meticlurians (sp); and you can't un-see Leia flying through space. It happened in the official version of the story. You can, at best, only re-watch the original trilogy and, in your own mind, consider everything else as fan-fiction.</p><p></p><p>With D&D, you don't have to buy Ravnica. You don't have to buy the Eberron PDF but can, if you want, wait for the more finished product and get the POD. And most of all, you can make your own game with whatever combination of materials from 44 years of publication history.</p><p></p><p>And more so, they ARE listening to grognards and hardcore fans. Thus Eberron. Presumably we'll see other "classic" settings. What they <em>aren't </em>doing, thankfully, is taking too seriously the vocal minority of folks who will complain about anything that doesn't cater to their own specific needs. These voices are always going to be there, just like everything Thanksgiving gathering has a "drunk uncle" who you just kind of have to tolerate and accept as part of the family, but not take too seriously or get offended by his outdated perspective of the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 7754270, member: 59082"] OK, I hear you about Star Wars. I haven't loved anything since Return of the Jedi. But Star Wars and D&D are different in a way that makes all the difference. Star Wars has a canonical story with a limited number of options in the form of films. D&D has many worlds, different ways of playing the game and making it your own. Having a piss-poor actor(s) play Anakin Skywalker "taints" the legacy of Darth Vader; you can't ignore meticlurians (sp); and you can't un-see Leia flying through space. It happened in the official version of the story. You can, at best, only re-watch the original trilogy and, in your own mind, consider everything else as fan-fiction. With D&D, you don't have to buy Ravnica. You don't have to buy the Eberron PDF but can, if you want, wait for the more finished product and get the POD. And most of all, you can make your own game with whatever combination of materials from 44 years of publication history. And more so, they ARE listening to grognards and hardcore fans. Thus Eberron. Presumably we'll see other "classic" settings. What they [I]aren't [/I]doing, thankfully, is taking too seriously the vocal minority of folks who will complain about anything that doesn't cater to their own specific needs. These voices are always going to be there, just like everything Thanksgiving gathering has a "drunk uncle" who you just kind of have to tolerate and accept as part of the family, but not take too seriously or get offended by his outdated perspective of the world. [/QUOTE]
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