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Wow, just wow.
I've been following Dragon since it was the Strategic Review...
The adventure paths never appealed to me much, but I've taken the Pathfinder option for my subs (so there's your chance to really astound me!)just to show a little support and solidarity for the Paizo folk, who have done a great job as caretakers for Dungeon and Dragon.
I sold my first printing of the original brown box D&D rules at Gen Con last year. I knew the hobby had changed, indeed it has to if it is to survive. I realized that I had no one to pass them on to. I was actually a little misty-eyed about it too. Then I realized that what has kept me playing since 1974, through all those editions and versions (and yes I bought and played every one), was the people and the excitement and the sense of wonder and the imaginative vision and the fun. Not the printed and bound rules.
I'm losing some very old and comfortable friends in Spetember; I will mourn them. I hope that Pathfinder will wow me. I expect that at the very least I'll always find something interesting and useful for my game therein.
Whatever WOTC does cannot take away what really matters to me in gaming.
You just can't kill that spirit. Good-bye my friends.