beyonder
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What I was trying to say is that most of the anti-4th edition sentiment you hear on the internet is actually coming from players of other d20 systems, i.e. 3/3.5/Pathfinder.
Regarding truly old school players and their dislike of the d20 system, I'd say that a lot of them feel that post-2nd edition D&D is too balanced, focuses too much on min-maxing, and also that the overall mentality of gamers has changed since then. Of course, the last thing has more to do with the fluff in the rulebooks than the system itself. Regardless, I hear a lot of old curmudgeons on the blogs (to which I, admittedly, subscribe in my RSS reader) complain that players of the later versions have strayed from the dungeon crawls of old. Again, though, this is silly. We've beaten this point to death on nolarpg.com at this point, but as we all know, style of play has more to do with the attitudes of players and DMs than the system.
Anyway, I think they all miss the days of low-level characters that can die at any second and high-level characters that are ridiculously overpowered. At least I do.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, but FWIW, I like all systems of D&D almost equally; they all have their strengths and weaknesses. The flavor is another story.
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