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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4651119" data-attributes="member: 19675">Oddly enough, that is one of the things that I've found a lot of 4Ed non-adopters like myself say is a problem:  We'd have tried to do so if the game were more easily convertible.In point of fact, the ease of conversion from 1Ed to 2Ed, and from 2Ed to 3Ed was one of the reasons I and the players I game with so quickly adopted the newer editions (99% conversions within 3 months for each previous revision).4Ed, OTOH, was different enough that- not only were there press releases saying we'd be better off not converting but instead starting anew- persons like myself who tried going through at least the mental exercise of attempting to do so were amazed that the press releases were dead on.Simply put, a lot of us didn't want to start over- that was a burning hoop we weren't going to jump through.  It wasn't that we were blissfully enamored of 3Ed's mechanics, per se, but rather that that we didn't want to ditch our campaigns or wait a year or more to get all of the books required to overhaul an old campaign to 4Ed.  "Ditch or retcon" just wasn't an option for many of us.I hope that when 5Ed rolls around that the designers keep this in mind, and make that edition's transition easy from either 4Ed, previous editions, or both.  (IOW, either don't change the rules so radically OR come up with some kind of conversion manual.)</blockquote>