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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Griffith Dragonlake" data-source="post: 3284174" data-attributes="member: 40379">Why did I come back?For myself, the more apt question would be ‘Why did I come back to Enworld’?I had joined ENworld as The Grymlorde(R) back when Eric was running the place.  At that time the only real alternative was the newsgroup rec.frp.dnd (or something).  The signal to noise ratio at the newsgroup had become unbearable once 3rd edition was announced so Eric's place was a good alternative by comparison.In the beginning there was lots of enthusiasm and oldtimers coming back.  However, upon posting house rules or asking ‘what if?’ questions the criticism was less than constructive. In fact, less constructive then rec.frp.dnd was during its heyday. So I stopped posting and reading the boards.  I still checked the news from time to time.  Over the last five years I think I only read the posts at Sean Reynold's site but by last year, Sean's site had become a shadow of its former self.  (As an aside I was active at Monte's site initially but then it deteriorated also.)Last year I started poking around the ENworld boards again and much to my pleasant surprise the quality of the content had improved. There were more thought provoking topics and less knee jerk responses than before.  So I joined again, albeit as Griffith Dragonlake. I suspect that the people who still post after 6+ years of 3e tend to be more thoughtful than those who came and went.There is still a good amount of noise, knee jerk reactions, and some favouritism but it's the best out there at the moment.I just hope that 4e doesn’t bring back the noise (but it probably will). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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