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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9210045" data-attributes="member: 59816"><p><a href="https://www.enworld.org/goto/post?id=9208689" target="_blank">Maxperson said:</a></p><p>I disagree. There were no other editions than 1e and 2e. Basic and it's expansions were a different game of D&D and not different editions, and the skills and powers books were not a new edition or a .5. They were just optional rules for 2e.</p><p></p><p>I imagine that your thoughts on the subject would have been <em>very</em> different if the Skills and Powers material had been <em>included</em> in the Black-version PHB instead of offered in their own book. The game was SIGNIFICANTLY changed by the addition of that book, even if, as you say, it was only "optional". The monsters were quite different in the Monstrous Manual. The 2e black books were <em>definitely</em> 2.5 (If you are one to think of things in .5s, like you are, [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER]). They just weren't called that.</p><p></p><p>Essentials in 4e was also <em>definitely</em> 4.5 and not called that. 2024 is also 5.5 AND NOT CALLED THAT. The only thing that was called .5 was 3.5. There's no precedent for it, except for in the heads of those who are HEAVILY influenced by 3.x. It's just a name chosen once, 20 years ago. It's not better nor more accurate than any other name they give it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 9210045, member: 59816"] [URL='https://www.enworld.org/goto/post?id=9208689']Maxperson said:[/URL] I disagree. There were no other editions than 1e and 2e. Basic and it's expansions were a different game of D&D and not different editions, and the skills and powers books were not a new edition or a .5. They were just optional rules for 2e. I imagine that your thoughts on the subject would have been [I]very[/I] different if the Skills and Powers material had been [I]included[/I] in the Black-version PHB instead of offered in their own book. The game was SIGNIFICANTLY changed by the addition of that book, even if, as you say, it was only "optional". The monsters were quite different in the Monstrous Manual. The 2e black books were [I]definitely[/I] 2.5 (If you are one to think of things in .5s, like you are, [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER]). They just weren't called that. Essentials in 4e was also [I]definitely[/I] 4.5 and not called that. 2024 is also 5.5 AND NOT CALLED THAT. The only thing that was called .5 was 3.5. There's no precedent for it, except for in the heads of those who are HEAVILY influenced by 3.x. It's just a name chosen once, 20 years ago. It's not better nor more accurate than any other name they give it. [/QUOTE]
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