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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5637883" data-attributes="member: 46713">Reading this, I just had an epiphany:Back in the days, TSR lost _me_ because they _did not_ make a new edition.I was quite happy playing AD&D 1e until I learned more about other rpg systems and started to feel that 1e was hopelessly outdated. Then came 2e and ... nothing much changed. For me it was too little too late.So I turned my back on D&D for a couple of years. 3e brought me back. They had overhauled D&D completely and almost everything that I enjoyed in other rpgs that had been missing from D&D was now present.As time went by (and the average party level went up), the 'ugly' side of 3e showed its face: It put too much work on the DM because it was just too difficult to prep. Combat was getting tedious and took hours even for relatively simple encounters.Then 4e came along and addressed most of the issues with 3e. However, it also changed a lot of other things, turning D&D into a different game much to the chagrin of many players._I_ was still happy with 4e until the Essentials disaster. Luckily I'm not DMing at the moment, otherwise I'd say it's time to turn my back on D&D again - at least for a while.</blockquote>