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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6585347" data-attributes="member: 996">I can think of plenty of positive changes 3e made, certainly. Not as dramatic as 4e, and often not really changes, so much as making optional rules and common house rules official.  But, it did, correspondingly, have some detractors and hold-outs, though never to the level of virulence achieved in the edition war.  And, the changes it made didn't make it any more accessible, rather, it was more complex (but for greater payoff), and emphasized RAW and system-mastery (or, rather, the community around it did).5e, conversely, moves back in the direction of classic D&D, and faces very little backlash (indeed, even AD&D hold-outs often like it).  It didn't challenge the status quo, if anything it's re-building it.</blockquote>