Departing ENWorld

After something like fifteen years, I've finally decided to step away from ENWorld. Part of that is that the site has become increasingly less useful with the release of 5th edition - there are so few releases that there's little incentive to visit for an update on news. But, mostly, it's due to the character of the place.

Unfortunately, one of the consequences of the Edition Wars seems to be the formation of two armed camps - the pro-D&D and pro-Pathfinder groups. And although open hostilities seem to be a thing of the past, the tensions have never gone away. In particular, it seems that you are indeed allowed to criticise one of the games... but only if you're already part of the tribe. For the rest, even the mildest criticism can be met with vitriol. Which is pretty hellish if your opinion of 5e is "yeah, it's good... but..."

But the biggest problem is not the character of the place, but rather my character at the place. It really started to seem that all I was doing there was engaging in pointless, increasingly bad-tempered arguments over minutae...

The bottom line is that I've decided to step away, probably permanently. I've come to not particularly enjoy being part of that community, and I've really come to dislike the part of myself that that community brings out.

It's a shame, and the end of an era... but I think it's also a positive move.