PS stay up.

I’m glad that this was interesting to read in perspective. It’s interesting for me too. I’ve also come a ways since the time I wrote this, and I agree with what you’re saying: that time and heartbreak does make people more realistic and jaded, but still capable of love and hope.

I’ve also come to think that there will always be times where we’ll remember something that makes us smile or frown or flinch, just like there will be times when we can’t do anything else but forget about everything except the person in front of us. Life’s just weird, but interesting, that way.

Thank you, all, for the comments; this last one in particular reminded me that I /do/ have a blog, and since I’ve got something to get off my chest, I’ll be updating again soon. :)

First time I read this was last year..mid march I think, after a 3 year relationship had been terminated by him. I had lived with him, he was my first, my best friend, and then bam suddenly I was alone. I was miserable..and it’s true, when you’re alone everything does remind you of them and you listen to shitty music, get drunk constantly and the world DOESN’T stop. However, as time passed I realized that my constantly repeating “i can’t live without him” was contradicted by the fact that I was. And then I met a cool dude around May who I didn’t realize existed and sloooooooooooooooooooooooooowly learned to trust someone again..sort of. stilll working on it :)

anyway the point of this comment was to thank you for writing this. I somehow stumbled upon it via google once more and read from a new perspective because this time I don’t have a bleeding heart heh. It just reminded me of how much it helped me, a little bit, in a time where I had never felt more alone. I don’t think people ever truly recover from a break up, the naive person they were before who believed in everlasting love is slaughtered and you’re left with a more realistic version of yourself who, at times can be jaded, but still loves and hopes in a different way. I guess. Anyway, kudos to you and you should write more. You’re pretty good.

And your town idea is ridiculous. That’s what towns have always been in my campaigns. They were safety points most of the time when I didn’t infest them with zombies or an evil dictator. My friend used them mostly as pit stops and staging grounds for story in his campaigns… until the Lich King burned down the city.

Prestige Classes aren’t so much gone as they’ve just been built in. Now I don’t need to be a Barbarian/Ranger/Fighter/OotB/Scout/…. in order to just have an Archer that does what I want. I pick the abilities I want every few levels and then I pick a paragon path that has more abilities that I want. How is that anything more than a simpler way to how it used to be?

To say that WotC missed how well video game rpgs work would be stupid. WotC saw a system that works and is balanced, non-hectic, and easy as hell to build and thought “Why can’t we make D&D more streamlined, easy, and fun and less bogged down by idiotic unnecessary rules?”, and they did. But to say that D&D is now like an MMO is ridiculous considering that there isn’t a single RPG out there that didn’t steal from D&D in the first place.

If your 4th ed game feels like an MMORPG, then you have one horrible horrible DM and need to find a new one.