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Message: <blockquote data-quote="exile" data-source="post: 6258780" data-attributes="member: 20068">I really wish that I were more excited about these announcements than I am. Years past, I would have been slavering over the new set of minis and Attack Wing. For some reason, though, I am not.On the one hand, my lack of enthusiasm for these new products may stem from my lack of enthusiasm for the new edition. I love 4E, Pathfinder, 3.X, and I have loved all the previous editions of the game; but I just can't get excited about Next, and that is keeping me from getting excited about these new minis and Attack Wing. To be fair, I was not really optimistic about 4E either until I started playing LFR. So, maybe, hopefully, Next too will grow on me.I love X-Wing. I love Wings of War. I've never played Attack Wing, but I understand it is similar to the others; but I can't get excited about applying those rules to dragons and fantasy fliers, and that makes me sad. I want to be excited. In ways, it feels like WotC is ripping off other companies' and their success-- going to WizKids for help with minis, making Dragon-whatever-attack-wing as a rip off of other popular games mentioned above. I say all of this, of course, knowing that the success of Paizo is based (in part) on the success of WotC's 3.X.On the other hand, my lack of excitement may very well stem from events in my own life. I'm getting older (aren't we all). I've moved twice in the last seven years. Each time, I've left great gaming groups behind. This time (and it's early still), I'm yet to find a suitable replacement for my previous groups. I miss my diehard 4E friends in Ohio. I miss my Pathfinder pals in Central Kentucky. I play a lot of Magic now; Magic is clearly king in Eastern Kentucky. My wife puts more demands on my time, and I find myself less able to play in a long-term, meaningful campaign.The answer too all of this? I don't know. I may keep slaving away (at what is a very demanding, yet personally and financially rewarding job). I may spend more and more time with my wife. Gaming may become increasingly infrequent. Maybe I'll even drop my Pathfinder subscriptions. Alternatively, I may forge a new group, meet new gaming friends who are as dear to me as my old ones. Maybe my wife will join a game (or maybe the Nine Hells will freeze over-- one of the hot upper levels of course; the lower ones are already frozen, right?). I'll be at GenCon... maybe Origins... maybe even PaizoCon. Maybe my enthusiasm meter will spike through the roof.The truth is, I don't know what the future holds. All I know is that right now, I should be very excited about these announcements, but I am not. And that makes me sad.</blockquote>

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