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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 6255197" data-attributes="member: 12760">Oh sure, but my problem with the ad at the time -- and still -- is that it talks down to me as a gamer, suggesting that the fact that I actually like this game means that somehow I'm having badwrongfun. It's not that the rules couldn't be cumbersome, but in the grand scheme of things, it didn't negatively impact my gameplay, and I found the rule in general very pleasurable to manage.This was by no means the only reason that I didn't come over to 4th edition. I was also incensed at the attempt to kill the SRD and the Open Gaming Licence. And, in conjunction with that, the reconfiguration of core races (dragonborn, Elderin, Teiflings as core races, but no gnomes). Obviously, other peoples milage varied considerably. But under the circumstances, WOTC made several strategic moves, in marketing and in design, that lost me as a consumer.And, to relate this to the original point of the post, that initial period of 3.0, and to a lesser extent after 3.5 (which always felt like an effort by WOTC to make me buy the same books again because of minor rules changes, which I nonetheless did), it felt like there were 1,000 flowers blooming, and they were all part of the great D&D revival -- whether it was Conan d20, True20, Arcane Unearthed, etc. I didn't see these games as schismatic, but as part of a great resurgence of interest, and I bought them all.But I reached my saturation point when 4th edition came out, because it felt once again like WOTC just wanted me to buy the same books yet again. Of course, I ended up doing just that with Pathfinder, but I didn't feel like they were talking down to me.</blockquote>

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