In all seriousness*, let me share a bit of background... I am not as old as some of the members of this forum, and I'm not as young as most of them. But I was younger than most when I got my start in the roleplaying hobby, at the wee age of seven, back in 1988** I was introduced to an odd little game called
Dungeons & Dragons. No, not AD&D (that came latter), I had an instant fascination for the hobby - these were the King Arthur stories I loved to read, the incredible tales out ofLord of the Kings my mother had read me to sleep with in kindergarten, the He-Man and She-Ra adventures I loved to see on TV every Saturday... but I got to be the hero(ine). I was the youngest player in the group by a good six years, most of the guys were in their late teens (our original DM was our new 20-something parish priest!
)
In the midsummmer 1990, I was nine years old and a seasoned veteran of D&D... Heck, I was even running my own dungeons! Then my freinds and I discovered
Warhammer, then in its third edition.
Warhammer hit its fourth edition not to long after we'd all sort of settled into our choice of armies. I'd already survived
two edition wars over D&D by this point (some of the blokes in the original group were still bitter about
Chainmaile having become the
original edition of D&D), I'd survived a split between
Shadowrun and
Cyberpunk, and even managed to weather the storm of being "A. Girl. In. A. Game. Store."
There have been five revisions of 40K since I started, five revisions of WHFB since I started, four or five revisions of damn near every RPG ever since I started... and something like 10 or 12 revisions of D&D since I started; There have been so many
Secret Inifinte Crisis Invasions of Infinte Zero Wars in my favorite comic book publishers that I go cross-eyed thinking about it... and the Console Wars. Oh god, the console wars...
(Fourty-five minute pause while I deal with my PTSD from the Great Genesis/SNES War.)
I mean, don't let me get in the way of your holy wars... But I've lived through so many things being "RUINED FOREVER!" over the years, that I have become a bit jaded. To judge by the reactions of this games more vocal fans every product ever released is the death knell of the game, the hobby, and Western civilization. Seriously, GW could put a £50 note in every $14.99 blister pack, and the forums wudl erupt with hatred that they weren't giving away Euros, and that [insert any random GW staffer here]*** was trying to devalue the pound.
*
Well, not all seriousness.**
Do your own math, but it is impolite to point out that a lady is about to turn 31. 
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Optional: Roll 1d6:
1-2) Blame Matt Ward;
3-4) Blame Robin Cruddace;
5) Blame C.S. Goto;
6) Blame "Evil money-grubbing Game$ Work$hop!"
