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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patlin" data-source="post: 3793242" data-attributes="member: 17264">Hey, I reserve the right to be silly when I feel like it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />To explain my position further, which I don't think is "sad," let me explain:Tieflings might be a great player race.  They might even make the best cover for the new players handbook.  I questioned the wisdom of making prominent something that could draw controversy to the hobby, since I assumed controversy was bad.  The flip side of controversy, which could be good for the hobby, had not occurred to me.  I hate it when I assume things without realizing I'm doing so.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> Lest you think I'm taking this too seriously, no percieved 'agenda' is going to effect whether I play 4e or enjoy it.  My concern has more to do with growing, or at least maintaining, the hobby.  A marketing failure at WoTC could effect my ability to buy products from them in the future, and even theoretically the availability of other gamers to play D&D with.I therefore have a vested interest in seeing them succeed.It's not that I think they are "selling out" or engaging in some machiavelian plan to make money off the game, it's that if they fail to make money off the game it hurts all of us.</blockquote>

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