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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6347731" data-attributes="member: 29398">Preach it, Brother! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There are only two words needed to present a complete and everlasting solution to the issue: backwards compatibility.Look at 0e-1e-2e.&nbsp; Sure they were different editions, but they were compatible enough with each other that an adventure or setting from one could be used in another with a relatively trivial amount of conversion if any. (caveat: late 2e went a bit adrift but by then TSR were clutching at straws anyway)The first two WotC edtions have pretty much thrown backward compatibility out the window.&nbsp; To use a 4e adventure in a 1e game requires considerable conversion; ditto 3e; and ditto the other way around (as in, 1e material in a 4e game).&nbsp; It remains to be seen whether 5e will be all that compatible with 0-1-2e (early results suggest not very) but there's still a good chance it'll be able to be made compatible with 3e and-or 4e; which is, I suppose, something.The other issue is hobby vs. business.&nbsp; Brother MacLaren puts it very well, quoted above, that the two are to some extent mutually incompatible.&nbsp; I'd go a step further and suggest they're becoming even less compatible now due to the ease of access to anything on the internet - somebody could dream up the best system evar and throw it online for free; and if it really took off the industry as we know it would never be the same.Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 6347731, member: 29398"] Preach it, Brother! :) There are only two words needed to present a complete and everlasting solution to the issue: backwards compatibility. Look at 0e-1e-2e. Sure they were different editions, but they were compatible enough with each other that an adventure or setting from one could be used in another with a relatively trivial amount of conversion if any. (caveat: late 2e went a bit adrift but by then TSR were clutching at straws anyway) The first two WotC edtions have pretty much thrown backward compatibility out the window. To use a 4e adventure in a 1e game requires considerable conversion; ditto 3e; and ditto the other way around (as in, 1e material in a 4e game). It remains to be seen whether 5e will be all that compatible with 0-1-2e (early results suggest not very) but there's still a good chance it'll be able to be made compatible with 3e and-or 4e; which is, I suppose, something. The other issue is hobby vs. business. Brother MacLaren puts it very well, quoted above, that the two are to some extent mutually incompatible. I'd go a step further and suggest they're becoming even less compatible now due to the ease of access to anything on the internet - somebody could dream up the best system evar and throw it online for free; and if it really took off the industry as we know it would never be the same. Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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