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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 6169837" data-attributes="member: 63245">I'm going to respond to the original question (I'm not going to read through 7 pages of replies).I'm hard on wizards of the coast because it seems to me they have a severe case of ADD as a company. So when 3.5 edition was over, that was fine, the game had a good what.... 8 year or so... run. 3e was my first introduction into tabletop RPGs. I loved it, but like many people I wanted to move on to something new. When I saw 4th edition I loved it (infact I still do). So that went along for a while, then after phb 3 they started REALLY tinkering and changing the system up, gearing up for the release of essentials, which was promised to be the "evergreen" D&D. I was pretty irritated by this, but as long as they were going to stick with a product great. Put it out and keep with it. So THEN essentials failed. Okay. So 4th edition had a massive errata, which basically changed the game completely, as well as this essentials line that was promised to be the baseline of D&D for the forseeable future.Of course this didn't work out. So then they announce 5th edition. Except they purposefully side step that word, which is a huge pet peeve of mine. It seems to me they are deliberately going out of their way to avoid the word "Edition". Which of course is what it is, a new edition of D&D. So at this point im pretty fed up with rebuying the same books. Yes yes, I am well aware I can use my old books for forgotten realms, and dragonlance and darksun etc etc. Let's face it though, the new edition is going to advance the timelines, or reset them or whatever, and provide material for the NEW game going on into 5th edition. At this point im tired. I'm tired of the edition switching. I just want to support a game that is going to stay around for a LONG time. I'm tired of being jerked every which way by Mike Mearls and the rest. It seems like they have these amazing ideas and then say "OH OH OH LOOK AT THIS NEW AWESOME THING", then completely drop their current project and work on something new. It really irritates me that a DMG for epic level play didn't come out either. COMPLETE AN EDITION BEFORE YOU START ON ANOTHER.Hell, even with the new playtest it seems as if they have no idea where they are going. It's just a mishmash of ideas, they are trying to filter through. What really gets me is that they release a playtest, then say they are several playtests ahead of the one currently out. So when they get feed back, they change the playtest that came out, which then (by the nature of the game) changes the future playtests on a fundamental level. So it makes more work for them because they must change their new playtest with the feed back of the old playtest. Does any of this even make sense to anyone? It sure doesn't for me. I don't care what wizards does, I just want them to STICK WITH AN EDITION!</blockquote>

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