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Honestly, I've never come so close to ramming the corner of a rulebook into someone's aesophagus and watching them turn purple than when one of my ex-group told me in sphincter-clenching detail how he planned on advancing the wizard he'd played up to 7th level all the way to 15th, including what he was going to spend every goddamn gold piece on to 'enhance his build'.
I was going to post in the Adult Swim thread, but I'll do it here instead. I grew up with D&D about 30 years ago. I had RQ. I had Traveller. I had T&T, and a copy of the first Warhammer rules in a box (which my mother appears to have burnt or given away sometime while I was at uni...), but I wasn't a gamer, I was a D&D player. Fast forward 25 years and we got to the 3rd ed party late. And within months, sane rational gamers who I'd played about every possible 1sr ed PC combo with suddenly started talking about builds. Fuck the work the GM put into his game, show me the XP and loot so I can make my character more powerful, along a path I have already predetermined.
No. Thank. You.
So now I'm not a D&D player, I'm a gamer. I still look wistfully at the 1st ed books on my shelf like I might do at the sister of the girl who told me she loved me then proceeded to fuck everyone else in the dorm corridor behind my back. I use my 3.5 player's handbook to keep my plate steady while I eat dinner in front of the TV, and the rest of the books...couldn't even tell you where they are. So even when 5th ed was announced, they could have said, free blow jobs when you buy the new books, I just don't fucking care. If it gets new people into the hobby, then I might see the benefit if they think like 1st ed players. My worry is they think like 3rd ed players, in which case I'll be hiding at home with the curtains drawn, using Mythic and Savage Worlds, and drinking my own pee.