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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5782455" data-attributes="member: 2011">When I moved to 4E, a few of my fellow gamers moved on to Pathfinder. A major part of that was them not liking many 4E elements, but a lot of it was also the cost. Not everyone can afford the plethora of books and the compendium didn't actually exist right away. And even some players cannot afford or do not want to pay the WotC fee for the compendium and character builder. They look at is as an unnecessary cost to play the game.It sucked that after gaming with one guy for nearly a decade, we were not gaming anymore because I wanted to try the new system (and was a bit discouraged with some of the old system elements) and he wanted to avoid the new system, so he moved to PathFinder to play a slightly better version of the 3.5 game that he had played for a long time (and for which a ton of his current books were compatible).In real life, a new edition can cause schisms. I'd hate to see some of the current gamers stick with 4E while others move on to 5E.If this happens infrequently (like once per decade), it's not as jarring as if it happens once every 5 years.For those of you whose group did not break up when 4E was introduced, great. Good for you. Isn't that special. I just think that in the almighty effort to gain dollars, there can be detrimental side effects that occur in the real world when new editions come out. I'd prefer it if those potential detrimental effects were fewer and further between.</blockquote>

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