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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6218606" data-attributes="member: 5143">I think for me, I love change.  I see the problems in things very quickly.  Even if something is working perfectly fine, I'm always looking to the future to see what might be better.  Then again, I work in the IT industry and I have a love of technology that was born from a desire to see everything improve over time.  When I was 15 along with playing D&D I'd sit in my room and dream of what computers might be like in 20 years.  At the rate they were advancing, computers would have processors with 3 GHZ!  Imagine what you could do with all that processing power!  After all, DOOM had such amazing graphics now, imagine what kind of games would exist in 20 years.  Imagine what technology would allow us to do.  My 15 year old self would still be amazed at how things turned out.  I can just imagine seeing an iPad Air 20 years ago...I'd be flabbergasted.Yet, still today, I'm always looking for the thing that's just slightly better than the year before hand.  I check 15 different news sites a day to find out what is the next big thing.  This applies to everything I like.  I buy a game and no sooner do I get it than I'm looking at what the thing that comes out next will be that fixes the problems with the current game.For me, it almost goes without saying that I'll play D&D Next.  If only because I have to at least try the next big thing.  I'm predisposed to look at whatever comes next in the best possible light.  I hate to look backwards.  Once something has run its course, it gets left behind.  Best to try the new thing.  Even if it isn't wholeheartedly better, it's at least different and interesting.When 3e came out, I'd already been checking Erich Noah's 3e News every day for over a year before hand trying to learn everything there was to know about it.</blockquote>

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