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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8113166" data-attributes="member: 3400">Yeah, those "small incremental fixes and improvements" are what bothered me most about the 3.5 update. I think it was an element of project creep at best, though I think it probably has more to do with a developing sense of OCDness around D&D's development, probably tied to a particular person's (or set of people) views. If you look at a lot of those incremental changes, a lot involve regularizing durations, areas of effect, named bonuses, etc. It's like a push to improve the "aesthetics" of the rules, their tidiness, possibly with an eye toward more automation/computerization friendliness. I agree that people who like 3.0 (or 3.5/PF1) have plenty of material to play with. However, as far as D&D as a product line/brand goes, it really has diverged in its evolution - a bit more toward some of its earlier iterations. And I hope it stays that way. I think people learned a lot from the 3e branch, I even think they learned a lot from the 4e branch (particularly about how NOT to replicate that particular experience), and have developed a better and more fun gaming experience for D&D, the 400 lb gorilla in the industry and the primary gateway tabletop RPG.</blockquote>