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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 2055477" data-attributes="member: 10201">Well, i don't know why it is for you, and i can't speak for others, but for me, it's because what gave me that warm fuzzy in earlier editions simply isn't there in the current edition, or is overshadowed by other things. I never got a warm fuzzy from new rules, or new widgets (spells, magic items, monster stats, now feats). I got the warm fuzzy from cool new fluff, for lack of a better word. I haven't gotten that feeling from a WotC product since i don't know when. Probably when they last owned Talislanta and Ars Magica. Maybe not since The Primal Order. So, a monster that has a really cool backstory gets me excited. I don't care *what* it's stats are, or even if they're simply a verbatim clone of average goblin stats. And, at least in WotC products, all that cool backstory has been mostly excised from the monsters. Ditto in other areas. I'll get excited about a +1 sword with a 2-page story behind it. A bunch of new magic weapon qualities? *Yawn* And, when i have seen stuff in WotC products that i liked, it was never sufficient to justify the purchase price, nor was it the majority of the pagecount. So while i've seen a fair bit of very cool stuff in WotC books of late, i'm not gonna spend ~$20-$30 for a book that has, say, 20pp that interest me. I don't accept the notion that i'll simply get jaded with age, and it's inevitable. There is still stuff that fires me up, and it seems pretty similar to what used to fire me up. Sure, it has to be new, but it's the kind of new, not merely the newness, that interests me. So i buy stuff that does fire me up, and don't lament the fact that i'm not buying any WotC books. Frex, i wanted to run D&D, perhaps primarily for nostalgia's sake. So that's what i'm running--but my rulebooks are Arcana Unearthed, Artificer's Handbook, Mystic Secrets, Grimoire II, Fantasy Bestiary, The Book of Distinctions and Drawbacks, Arabian Adventures, and Land of Fate (plus a few bits found online, and a couple magic items from the Everquest D20 GMG). Really, i don't see anything wrong with not being into the current version of D&D, or not liking a particular publisher's work. And i wouldn't *expect* your opinion of earlier editions to translate to the new one, because they're significantly different in aims, playstyle espoused, presentation, and look. So if what drew you to D&D in previous versions was any of those, D&D3E isn't likely to "do it for you." As another poster pointed out.</blockquote>

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