Jaron: I have an idea for you.
Instead of repeating yourself until you trigger the collapse of the internet, why don't you actually read what I typed?
4e is not what I want. "It has no multiclassing!"...so? I can HR that in 3.5 now and leave the game totally as is otherwise. (It'd be a stupid idea, but it doesn't require paying $100+ for books, which is also a stupid idea if that's the only reason to get 4e).
No one is forcing you to comment on this. No one is forcing you to pay attention to this thread. No one is forcing you to have anything whatsoever to do with my idea. If you're not interested, then don't post! I'm not going to shrivel up and die because you're not commenting.
Meanwhile, because you would rather say insulting comments than no comments, even though you don't have any interest whatsoever in my idea, you've been mocking it for several pages, and you've stated that you don't think 4e is a good system, and somehow that works out as "I think you should try 4e!"
If this is a "3.5 D&D" subforum, it doesn't say so. It says a "house rules" forum.
So you have three basic choices:
1) Contribute. You may or may not want to do this but you've some ideas on what to think about.
2) Ignore this.
3) What you're doing, which is mock, mock, mock, mock, mock and more mockery. Its sort of "We don't like your idea, and we're going to keep saying so forever and forever." If you're going to post in a thread discussing the idea, I'm going to point out why I think it is a perfectly reasonable idea.
If you don't care for a discussion on why drinking beer might not be a bad idea, then don't get in a conversation with a guy who thinks drinking beer is preferable to wine.
I'm not forcing my idea on anyone. You, on the other hand, are acting as if me saying what I think this is a good idea, in a discussion of the idea, is forcing something on you.
Is it literally impossible to just say "I don't care for this, best of luck, going to do something that intersts me." and then ignore this thread because it does nothing whatsoever to change the game that you happen to be playing?
Seriously. If I was your DM or influencing your DM to try this, you might have a reason to be annoyed. If I was posting all over the place that people should do this because free multiclassing is EVIL, you would have a reason to be annoyed.
That's not what I'm doing.
So either contribute to the discussion without insulting the idea, or ignore the discussion. I really don't care which, but "take part in the discussion to mock the idea and suggest something you think sucks to someone who you think sucks" is not a good option.