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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 3935608" data-attributes="member: 40961">If you look hard enough, you will find what you are looking for.  Even if what you're looking for is a 15 page exposition that PROVES your opinion correct, and what you're looking in is a two sentence toss away quote from a WOTC mail room employee on a message board from 3 months ago that began, "This is probably going to change, but..."What you're looking for matters.  In a lot of ways.  Sometimes its worth stepping back to consider what it is you're seeking.Gamers want their edition of the game to be supported.  Even if they don't buy anything these days because they have all the books they could ever want, it just makes them feel better.Gamers don't want to feel left behind.  Even if they don't need anything else from WOTC, they don't want to feel like WOTC, and the community, is leaving them.Gamers who homebrew care a LOT about the default setting.  A lot more than I expected.  They want it to be as close to their homebrew as possible.Gamers would prefer that certain options be unavailable for everyone, rather than have to ban those options in their own, personal game.  This looks like spite, but it really isn't.  Its an almost emotional objection to banning material.Everyone hates Kender.  Somebody from WOTC accidentally let slip that 3e Halflings are basically Kender minus the annoying parts, and now, after getting along for the majority of a decade, everybody hates them.  Even I kind of want to kick the little guys.</blockquote>

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