Ever since the announcement of D&D 4E, gaming forums have been gone crazy with rampant speculations, rumors, hearsay, and denouncement of every single snippet of information that has been presented about the new edition. A large number of gamers have already made up their minds that they are never going to buy this new edition - without ever actually having seen the new rules.

But really, we have been here before. Let me show a small selection of Usenet posts (does anyone here remember Usenet) from rec.games.frp.dnd, around September in the year 1999 - more than half a year before the publication of D&D 3E.

( Walking down memory lane... )

You might see why I am experiencing a strong sense of deja vu at the moment