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* [[Broken Base]]: The edition war between 3rd and 4th editions. While there were some changeover gripes between 2nd and 3rd, this edition war has reached [[Internet Backdraft]] levels, possibly simply due to the availability of the Internet and the increased popularity of the system. Also the setting issue, where assorted players have flame wars over pointless gripes such as whether Eberron's [[Dungeon Punk]] setting is bad or not.

** And, more recently after WOTC released a new set of core books called "Essentials", there is a heavy flame war between people who like "pre-E" D&D and those who like "post-E". The former group tends to call this new set "4.5", the latter gets positively enraged at seeing this number.

*** They already have: Fans of 3E are [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|rejoicing over 5E]], while fans of 4E are crying [[Ruined FOREVER]] at the return of [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]].

*** [[It Got Worse]]: Many of the rules just ''don't make any goddamn sense'' in the playtest, such as having to roll ''36 hit dice for a rat swarm because the game treats each rat as an individual monster''. And remember [[Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards]]? Well, let's just say the problem's '''worse than ever''': Rogues and Fighters are absolutely worthless and Clerics have been reduced to healbots. The kicker? [[Game Breaker|Wizards can do everything better than all the other classes combined]]. A lot of longtime fans who have accepted the move to 4E hate the playtest as well, and even some 4E haters are crying out that Wizards seems to have taken only the ''worst'' parts of all the previous editions to make the game. About the only reason the base is broken over it is because of 4E's [[Hate Dumb]] loving it blindly without even caring about how badly-designed the game is.