20-Point Letter of Protest Regarding 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons

Since 4th ed. came out on Friday there have been countless reviews, stories, wish-lists and undoubtedly a wiki covering it. The problem with all the coverage I have seen so far is that it appears to be incredibly one sided: human-sided. Here's the scoop on 4th ed. from a few who have been forgotten, a gnome and a half-orc.

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It's official: I'm not wasting money on 4th ed

[Random Guru 42]

The dumbing down of D&D that started with 3rd edition has gotten to the point where I just can't do it any more. I'm switching back to AD&D 1st edition (since I don't have 2nd ed books).

There's a few good ideas in 4E, such as allowing magic users to actually be magic users more than once or twice a day, but for every good change there's twenty bad.

Hasbro and its money grubbing ways has lost the game as far as I'm concerned. Hell, I might just go straight to GURPS.

Oh, btw -- first post.