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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6006215" data-attributes="member: 17106">I have an interest in playing D&amp;D. I have a sense of the rules because I read them. D&amp;D is sold in book form; reading the books to form an opinion is hardly an unreasonable step. I also have an interest in revising D&amp;D and making it better, and would have liked to play a 4e that did that.I also follow news related to political parties I don't vote for, read journals for fields I'm not involved in, and have friends who aren't carbon copies of myself. Because D&amp;D is a hobby of mine; I felt it important that I give 4e a fair chance and learn as uch about it as possible. Had it been more to my liking, I would have used it. As it was not, I have an informed dislike of it.If you're saying that I've spent too much of my life on 4e, you are right.If I were ignoring them, wouldn't they be on my ignore list (which, incidentally, I have only ever used on one 3.5-oriented poster)? I find their statements unpersuasive, so I say so. Not exactly usual behavior on an online forum.Given, as as been thoroughly discussed elsewhere, the negative influence that online forum posts seem to have had on game design, I think it's important to counteract that.How dogmatic I am! I can have opinions that aren't what you expect! Largely my objections to 4e can be characterized in this manner, that it took problems that existed and made them worse, while ignoring fixes that needed to be made and even creating new problems. I hardly think any game is perfect. If I thought 3e was without flaw, there would be no reason for me to be disappointed with 4e's (or 5e's) failures.Did you have a point in all of this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 6006215, member: 17106"] I have an interest in playing D&D. I have a sense of the rules because I read them. D&D is sold in book form; reading the books to form an opinion is hardly an unreasonable step. I also have an interest in revising D&D and making it better, and would have liked to play a 4e that did that. I also follow news related to political parties I don't vote for, read journals for fields I'm not involved in, and have friends who aren't carbon copies of myself. Because D&D is a hobby of mine; I felt it important that I give 4e a fair chance and learn as uch about it as possible. Had it been more to my liking, I would have used it. As it was not, I have an informed dislike of it. If you're saying that I've spent too much of my life on 4e, you are right. If I were ignoring them, wouldn't they be on my ignore list (which, incidentally, I have only ever used on one 3.5-oriented poster)? I find their statements unpersuasive, so I say so. Not exactly usual behavior on an online forum. Given, as as been thoroughly discussed elsewhere, the negative influence that online forum posts seem to have had on game design, I think it's important to counteract that. How dogmatic I am! I can have opinions that aren't what you expect! Largely my objections to 4e can be characterized in this manner, that it took problems that existed and made them worse, while ignoring fixes that needed to be made and even creating new problems. I hardly think any game is perfect. If I thought 3e was without flaw, there would be no reason for me to be disappointed with 4e's (or 5e's) failures. Did you have a point in all of this? [/QUOTE]

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