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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takasi" data-source="post: 4067208" data-attributes="member: 20194">I have a friend who is, IMO, a little paranoid about the design of 4th edition.  One analogy he frequently makes is that 4th edition will be to 3rd edition what 2nd edition was to 1st.My friend did not like 2nd edition.  There were many reasons mechanically, and the point of this thread really isn't to go into them.What I'd like to look at is the leadership and actual people who designed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.1st, 2nd and 3rd edition were essentially controlled and developed by entirely different lead designers and brand managers.  4th edition, on the other hand, has the same Director in charge:  Bill Slavicsek.  Mike Mearls, one of the lead designers, was chosen by Monte Cook as the designer of one of his leading systems after he left WotC.  Most of the designers have been on the team for years making a living off of designing 3.5 material.Do you think there is any comfort in the fact that in 4th edition the torch is actually being passed, whereas in previous editions the torch was either dropped and picked up or taken forcefully by someone else?</blockquote>