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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 3934603" data-attributes="member: 17596">When the 4e announcement was made I was put off by it. Seemed just a smidge (a year or so) too early for my liking. I was probably around 70/30 against at that point. The timing of the announcement being the main thing that shifted the scales for me. (That and the idea of preview books...that you buy...and either end up holding onto forever because you're a packrat or you sell as soon as 4e is out because you realize the previews are now pointless and taking up valuable shelf space. Mini-rant over!)After the less than stellar (excepting your article on Graz'zt, Mr. Jacobs!) debut of the online Dragon/Dungeon magazines, the wizardly implements, the strange cobbled-together feel of the new setting mixed with the new system and a number of tiny things that seem insigificant on their own but quickly add up to  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> --I shifted to around 80/20 against.Then came the mystery race leak and the Dragonborn took the stage. I was completely underwhelmed. In the meantime, all the third party folks are selling off their 3e books at prices that can't be beat. I'm picking up three dozen or so books (entire campaign settings, sourcebooks, adventures...everything) for less than the cost of any ten WotC books I own. In short, I've more than doubled the amount of settings I have for 3e (Kingdoms of Kalamar, Dawnforge, Midnight, The Black Company, Thieves' World...) and I have more than enough material to play 3e for the rest of my life and still not cover it all. If anything I'm even more invested in 3e now than I was before the 4e announcement. I'm sitting around 90/10 against purchasing any new edition for the next couple of years at the very least.</blockquote>

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