{"id":4709,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/a-quick-gaming-apology\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:18:52","slug":"a-quick-gaming-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4709","title":{"rendered":"A quick gaming apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of an utterly unrelated search, I came across a post of mine from back in the early days of D&amp;D 4E, wherein I foolishly predicted that Paizo would move to 4E after a few years of Pathfinder.<\/p>\n<p>And it occurs to me that this post may be the origin of the (mistaken) idea that I dislike Pathfinder. It was, in fact, merely an utter misread of the market, not a comment on the quality of anyone&#8217;s game, and <em>certainly <\/em>not the expression of any sort of wish. But I can see how it might have seemed that way.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I would like to apologize&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A) To Paizo, for not giving them near enough credit for their coming success;<\/p>\n<p>B) To WotC, for throwing more fuel on the fire of those who were angry about the edition switch;<\/p>\n<p>C) And to any\/all gamers who felt that I was in any way denigrating their choice of system. That was absolutely <em>not<\/em> my intent, but obviously I&#8217;m as capable of getting swept up in the moment as anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; I love D&amp;D. I love Pathfinder. I love the creative folks at both Paizo and WotC. I&#8217;m happy to be part of, and contribute whatever I can to, both sets of fans. And I&#8217;m sorry if anything I&#8217;ve said has ever given the impression otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of an utterly unrelated search, I came across a post of mine from back in the early days of D&amp;D 4E, wherein I foolishly predicted that Paizo would move to 4E after a few years of Pathfinder. And it occurs to me that this post may be the origin of the (mistaken) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}