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Why has 4E become the D&D zeitgeist?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3463474" data-attributes="member: 27051"><p>It was 3.5 that did it. The sudden appearance of an new edition (or edition upgrade or whatever you want to call it) changed peoples' view of D&D from being a slowing evolving system with new editions every decade or so, to being a system that could be upgraded to a new edition <em>at any time</em>, even overnight or when you just weren't looking!</p><p></p><p>I do prefer 3.5 to 3.0 (and never bought much 3.0 stuff, having some odd premonition of upgrade shenanigans that I can't explain to this day) but I do think its a shame that it had this effect on gamer consciousness.</p><p></p><p>To be fair, there were rumblings about 3rd edition back in the late days of 2nd edition (I vaguely recall it being mentioned in an editorial in the late TSR era), but there was never any hint that it was being actually worked on until its release, nor was there a perpetual expectation that it was imminent, about to fall on us along with most of the sky.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure that there are other factors (the blasted new-fangled interweb being one of them and a general push for New Shiny Goodness from marketing-land) but I'd agree that 3.5 is at the heart of it. A shame, really, and a bit poisonous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 3463474, member: 27051"] It was 3.5 that did it. The sudden appearance of an new edition (or edition upgrade or whatever you want to call it) changed peoples' view of D&D from being a slowing evolving system with new editions every decade or so, to being a system that could be upgraded to a new edition [i]at any time[/i], even overnight or when you just weren't looking! I do prefer 3.5 to 3.0 (and never bought much 3.0 stuff, having some odd premonition of upgrade shenanigans that I can't explain to this day) but I do think its a shame that it had this effect on gamer consciousness. To be fair, there were rumblings about 3rd edition back in the late days of 2nd edition (I vaguely recall it being mentioned in an editorial in the late TSR era), but there was never any hint that it was being actually worked on until its release, nor was there a perpetual expectation that it was imminent, about to fall on us along with most of the sky. I'm sure that there are other factors (the blasted new-fangled interweb being one of them and a general push for New Shiny Goodness from marketing-land) but I'd agree that 3.5 is at the heart of it. A shame, really, and a bit poisonous. [/QUOTE]
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