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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5638094" data-attributes="member: 19675">I fall somewhat into some of the categories DEFCON 1 enumerated- especially category 1- but I'm not lost for good.  I actually do have a fair amount of 4Ed product.*My skepticism about a Unification Edition is based purely on mechanics.  There are many changes in 4Ed that simply don't mesh well with previous editions...and those mechanics are a good portion of the reason the divide is as big and deep as it is.  Things like the dilution of alignment to virtual insignificance, the AEDU power system, and so forth are hailed as advances by 4Edphiles and deeply resented by 3.Xphiles...and the rules they replaced are seen in exactly the opposite way by the respective sides.  Appeasing one side is very likely to drive the other away.I don't see how you can resurrect the sacred cows 4Ed slaughtered without causing many of that game's fans to run away in fear and disgust.Marketing may have opened the rift, but the mechanics cracked it wide open.* I think its a solid FRPG.  I just don't think of it as D&D.</blockquote>