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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7864867" data-attributes="member: 6775477"><p>Edition wars are a serious thing, and while they've existed since AD&D was first introduced, the major split from 3E to 4E (which helped spawn a major competitor) was a lesson the entire industry learned. By downplaying that it's a new edition, you allow new players to avoid a lot of baggage from earlier editions. The only downside of this is in FLGS players can find older edition materials and potentially become confused (hopefully the FLGS staff will help, however).</p><p></p><p>The other big reason, at least for 5E, is that it was meant to be an evergreen edition. In a perfect world, this would be the last edition of D&D, with only new supplements and perhaps a revision or two. Of course this isn't realistic, but at its current pace 5E should easily surpass a decade, which both the last two editions failed to do. I expect it could last maybe 15 years, or even 20 if a revision is put in at about the 10 year mark.</p><p></p><p>It's complex, but I'd simply consider it to be 1 edition higher, to include OD&D. In reality the Basic game, and everything spawned off of it, were different enough from both OD&D and AD&D that they should be considered different games IMO. Even if you wanted to include them, you'd have OD&D as 1E, AD&D as 2E, the BECMI boxes as 3E, AD&D (again) as 4E, the D&D Cyclopedia as 5E, and then 3/4/5 editions becoming 6/7/8th. The various mini-revisions of BECMI, like 3.5, aren't significant enough to be consider a truly new edition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 7864867, member: 6775477"] Edition wars are a serious thing, and while they've existed since AD&D was first introduced, the major split from 3E to 4E (which helped spawn a major competitor) was a lesson the entire industry learned. By downplaying that it's a new edition, you allow new players to avoid a lot of baggage from earlier editions. The only downside of this is in FLGS players can find older edition materials and potentially become confused (hopefully the FLGS staff will help, however). The other big reason, at least for 5E, is that it was meant to be an evergreen edition. In a perfect world, this would be the last edition of D&D, with only new supplements and perhaps a revision or two. Of course this isn't realistic, but at its current pace 5E should easily surpass a decade, which both the last two editions failed to do. I expect it could last maybe 15 years, or even 20 if a revision is put in at about the 10 year mark. It's complex, but I'd simply consider it to be 1 edition higher, to include OD&D. In reality the Basic game, and everything spawned off of it, were different enough from both OD&D and AD&D that they should be considered different games IMO. Even if you wanted to include them, you'd have OD&D as 1E, AD&D as 2E, the BECMI boxes as 3E, AD&D (again) as 4E, the D&D Cyclopedia as 5E, and then 3/4/5 editions becoming 6/7/8th. The various mini-revisions of BECMI, like 3.5, aren't significant enough to be consider a truly new edition. [/QUOTE]
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