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<blockquote data-quote="seskis281" data-source="post: 4119822" data-attributes="member: 41593">I understand and empathize with what you are feeling, but the above is just not accurate - &quot;home&quot; doesn't necessarily mean &quot;official, as currently published, D&amp;D.&quot; I turned to discover my &quot;home&quot; with Castles &amp; Crusdaes. Others found it with 3.5. Still others with Mutants &amp; Masterminds, still others in the original versions of OD&amp;D, B/X, BECMI, or 1e AD&amp;D. Many will enjoy 4e as their &quot;home.&quot; Others still turn to Gary Gygax's more recent LA, others Iron Heroes.Is this a terrible thing? I think, more than anything, this is actually a time of great opportunity. When 2e came out, there were very few alternatives. With 3e, a few more. Now, thanks especially to the OGL, there are a plethora of systems, games and resources for all of us. To &quot;despair&quot; because everyone who plays RPGs doesn't uniformly follow one standard, one banner, seems a bit much.....So my response is simple - embrace the chaos!! Rejoice at splintering, because it will drive competativity in the RPG marketplace.... WotC will look at the moves of Paizo and will have to push their product better to succeed... similarly Pathfinder must maintain high quality. As I said, I am a C&amp;C fan, and the quality of the game and product gets better continually as the market pushes it along. When it all is essentially one system, that is when &quot;bad&quot; product can go out (heh -- lots of bad d20 out there from 2002-2005 lol).&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="seskis281, post: 4119822, member: 41593"] I understand and empathize with what you are feeling, but the above is just not accurate - "home" doesn't necessarily mean "official, as currently published, D&D." I turned to discover my "home" with Castles & Crusdaes. Others found it with 3.5. Still others with Mutants & Masterminds, still others in the original versions of OD&D, B/X, BECMI, or 1e AD&D. Many will enjoy 4e as their "home." Others still turn to Gary Gygax's more recent LA, others Iron Heroes. Is this a terrible thing? I think, more than anything, this is actually a time of great opportunity. When 2e came out, there were very few alternatives. With 3e, a few more. Now, thanks especially to the OGL, there are a plethora of systems, games and resources for all of us. To "despair" because everyone who plays RPGs doesn't uniformly follow one standard, one banner, seems a bit much..... So my response is simple - embrace the chaos!! Rejoice at splintering, because it will drive competativity in the RPG marketplace.... WotC will look at the moves of Paizo and will have to push their product better to succeed... similarly Pathfinder must maintain high quality. As I said, I am a C&C fan, and the quality of the game and product gets better continually as the market pushes it along. When it all is essentially one system, that is when "bad" product can go out (heh -- lots of bad d20 out there from 2002-2005 lol). :cool: [/QUOTE]

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