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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StinkyEttin" data-source="post: 6742526" data-attributes="member: 6786802">It's almost as if...::gasp::...we don't live to intentionally annoy our playerbase! I'm not 100% sure on what is going to be released and I couldn't speak on it if I did, but rest assured that we realize that people want to use the materials in the book; despite what the doomsayers want you (and they themselves) to believe.That aside, you're confusing simple disagreement for dismissiveness. It's fun, hip, and easy to imagine the Admins and Wizards as sitting around a table all conspiring and devising new ways to make the players miserable. Let me go on the record and state that that isn't the case. Wizards produced a product that you can play wholly for free. We administer a program that, again, you can play wholly for free. If it inspires you to go buy the book, awesome! If not, awesome! Bottom line is we just want folks to play and have fun doing it. Going to cons can be expensive. Players have to shell out hundreds of dollars to attend. Some do it out of the hopes of getting a certificate, but the majority doesn't. In my experience, those that don't expect a con cert typically don't leave disappointed. But just like it costs hundreds of dollars to attend for players, it also costs hundreds of dollars for the DMs, Admin, and staff to attend--myself included. Sure I might get comped a badge or a hotel room for DMing 24+ hours of D&D, but living on the west coast isn't easy on the wallet when most of the major conventions are in the Mid West.Again, we just want you guys to have fun. If that means playing/DMing the game, great. But if that means painting us as dismissive villains who don't give a lick about the folks we work hard to placate, it sucks for us, but hey, everybody plays the game differently; as long as you're having fun photoshopping a black eye and blackened out tooth on my picture, knock yourself out, I guess.</blockquote>

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