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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3740980" data-attributes="member: 30001"><p>But does the car analogy have people driving their $100,000 antique cars to work every day?  I think do pay a lot of money for old 1E books, and treasure them.  But the core of their RPG experiences will rely on them?  I think collecting and using are two different things, although my 1E DMG is in far better shape than most cars built at the time.  Books and ideas can last forever, but DnD is as much of a technology as it is a style.  If the differences between 1E and 3E were simply style I think there would be a more even distribution of people playing the different editions as there are of people listening to the various eras of rock music.  But I expect the bulk of people listening to Mozart in the year 2050 will be doing so on a sound system using 2050 technology.  I think that analogy describes what I mean.</p></blockquote><p></p>