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Why has 4E become the D&D zeitgeist?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 3463423" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>Honestly, why has the concept of D&D Fourth Edition been so thoroughly thrust into the consciousness of the gaming community?</p><p></p><p>I didn't game during the 1E days, but I highly doubt that they spent their time worrying about 2E before it'd been announced. I was a player in the 2E days, and the playtest groups notwithstanding, 3E wasn't even a thought before it was announced in 1999. </p><p></p><p>3.5E changed all of that. With the game getting a re-release only three years into its new edition, one that had most of the drawbacks of a new edition of the game but few of the benefits, the gaming community has since seemed to expect Fourth Edition every year since then. People can't seem to talk about the future of the game, or what they think is wrong with it, without saying how they think things will be different in the next edition. Is it that everyone is trying to prepare themselves for the game becoming redundant again, so they aren't caught by the surprise unexpectedly the way 3.5E did?</p><p></p><p>To be clear, I'm not asking about the pros or cons of 4E; I'm asking why everyone seems to be so obsessed with 4E currently?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 3463423, member: 8461"] Honestly, why has the concept of D&D Fourth Edition been so thoroughly thrust into the consciousness of the gaming community? I didn't game during the 1E days, but I highly doubt that they spent their time worrying about 2E before it'd been announced. I was a player in the 2E days, and the playtest groups notwithstanding, 3E wasn't even a thought before it was announced in 1999. 3.5E changed all of that. With the game getting a re-release only three years into its new edition, one that had most of the drawbacks of a new edition of the game but few of the benefits, the gaming community has since seemed to expect Fourth Edition every year since then. People can't seem to talk about the future of the game, or what they think is wrong with it, without saying how they think things will be different in the next edition. Is it that everyone is trying to prepare themselves for the game becoming redundant again, so they aren't caught by the surprise unexpectedly the way 3.5E did? To be clear, I'm not asking about the pros or cons of 4E; I'm asking why everyone seems to be so obsessed with 4E currently? [/QUOTE]
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