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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DinoInDisguise" data-source="post: 9602790" data-attributes="member: 7045806">A little warning, I'm a bit fiery tonight. What I said was true. It doesn't take much reading to go back through the old threads from this last year and find the behavior I cite. Post after post listing reason after reason for why 5e is more popular than it should be. Excuses for how so many could like something so bad. Person after person telling me why I like the system, and how I'm wrong for doing so.Look at that, the very black magic I cited. A reason for how if 5e players only knew better. If they only experienced more. If they only could see the light. Maybe than, just maybe, they'd find the folly of their ways. Maybe then they'd believe the whiteboard over their experience in-game. It's the exact thing my post was pointing out, a subtle, possibly unintentional, demeaning of the system's fans as simply ignorant, uninformed or worse.Since I've joined these forums, so many have partook in the past time of blaming 5e's success on boogeyman after boogeyman. Insulting and belittling it's fan base with wild and unfounded claims of brainwashing and ignorance. Finally, we watch those people squirm for relevance, as the hobby continues it's march towards those very 5e players they spent so long dismissing.Opinions can vary but there is some level of irony that we muse about people's opinion mattering, as we have repeatedly found ways to downplay and dismiss the opinion of those who like the system as is. We minimize the likes of others with countless adjectives and excuses while we trumpet our own views as prophetic and meaningful.Maybe, in the future, it would be better if we stop. And we don't make condescending remarks about systems others enjoy and we refrain from saying, "you only enjoy it because." Maybe than, you won't have people like myself amused by threads like these. Amused that the very people who belittled and insulted my view of a system are scrambling for someone to care about theirs.Or, more likely, by next week there will be yet another discussion where someone says, "if only 5e players would." As if we are all just to dumb to see it their way. Because their way is right and I'm just brainwashed, uninformed or worse.</blockquote>

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