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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 3264400" data-attributes="member: 3854">Funny. There are currently no less than 7 edition wars raging on the front page of this forum. Most of them started explicitly as edition wars. (One is actually named "EDITION WARZ".)One difference between D&D players and fighter plane aficionados: the propeller heads don't deride one another and pick fights over whether a HUD is bad technology compared to a reflective site. WWII pilots don't harangue Desert Storm pilots, saying, "You have no fighting skill, you just let the computer do all the work." And WWI historians don't take offense when the AWACs crew asks, "Why was such a flamible gas used to float the observation dirigibles?"The war plane guys can discuss the technologies (brilliance and flaws), the tactical strategies (successful and failed), and the feel of the actions (thrills and terrors) without insulting one another or taking offense at the mere existance of the other planes. [I was once a war plane guy, myself -- I used to talk the planes on other forums.] P-51 guys didin't pipe up about how the F22 can't fly, "It's just a rocket that the pilot just hangs on to for dear life."I find it exasperatingly humorous that some people take offense (as a declaration of an edition war) to compare, for instance, AD&D1 to P-47s, Spitfires, Fw109s, and by God, Me262s. Or BD&D to Sopwith Camels and Fokker Dr.Is. People line up to see these aircraft sitting at an airport and flying overhead. Whole organizations exist to keep these planes in working order and in the public eye (much like D&D groups).And no one stares up at the Wright Flyer and says, "Man, what a crappy machine." Everyone recognizes it as an amazing construction that was the base upon which the Space Shuttle eventually evolved.I have never seen plane-lovers (actual pilots or just earth-bound aficionados) hurl tomatoes at each other or at planes from other eras, like D&D players do. As a whole, D&D players need to mature in this regard, and stop hurling offenses intentionally, and stop taking offense at questions asked to get understanding.Quasqueton</blockquote>

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