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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6061155" data-attributes="member: 19675">Speaking as an old-schooler who games with old schoolers- and particularly as one who has found some things to like about playing 4Ed- the problem was that the game killed off support for extant cohesive story lines- namely, everybody's ongoing campaigns.To explain: many of us had games that we've been playing for decades- I'm in one campaign (among others) right now that has been active since 1985 or so.  As each edition rolled out, we've been able to convert our PCs and game worlds to the new editions.  3Ed even provided a conversion guide.  It wasn't perfect- the mechanics were a pretty big departure- but our PCs still felt right.4Ed?  Well, in interviews, the designers even said outright we'd be better off starting new games rather than trying to maintain that continuity, and that there would be no conversion guide.  That was a big middle finger to a lot of the installed base.  To this day, I'm one of only 2 guys in my extended group of gamers (10+) who has dropped any money on 4Ed.The stories are already out there.  5Ed just needs to figure out a way to support them.  As "the unifying edition", it might behoove them to create an online conversion guide- one that does NOT require a DDI membership- for updating PCs from the prior editions into 5th, allowing gamers from all those eras to continue playing their games but with the new rules...(Free would be best, but I'd personally find something like that to be worth a small fee.)</blockquote>

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