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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4021949" data-attributes="member: 14159">Echoing what a lot of people here have said, I'm somebody who is sticking with 3.5 but I have my reasons for being here.1. I have been playing D&D for over a decade now, so even if I am not going to play the new edition I do want to know where the game is going and I do have some emotional investment in the state of the game and it's settings.2. I am mildly interested in pilfering some odds and ends from 4e to retrofit to 3.5.  Since I disagree with a lot of the design philosophy and general play-style assumptions of 4e (I like character sheets that detail all kinds of non-combat/non-adventuring skills and abilities like tailoring, monster stat blocks that list lots of abilities that might not come up in combat, I like gritty dungeon-survival crawls, ect.) I know there will be a lot I won't like in 4e, but if there is something I can use I will.3. While 3.5 is my preferred edition (it isn't perfect, I don't like pokemounts, the "christmas tree" effect, and a few ways some spells now act, but it's closer to my D&D ideal than any other edition), I do know I will be dealing with 4e players in social surroundings in the future so being conversant with a widely used edition is a good idea.4. The advent of 4e has brought up a lot of debate over what really is D&D.  A lot of things I had always considered pretty much intrinsic to the D&D experience, or at least default assumptions that were core even if specific settings didn't use them, are right out in 4e and weren't in some older editions I didn't play weren't there at all, or some other players always ignored them or disregarded them.  It has really shined a light on the sheer variety of play styles, editions, mechanics, and setting presumptions that have emerged over three decades of D&D.</blockquote>

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