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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9674082" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Probably because I don't play as much as other, harder‑core fans, but new editions never bothered me. I just don't play enough to feel a need to buy a new edition. My problem in the past was buying so many adventures, settings, and rule expansion books that I don't have the time to use what I bought when I new edition comes out. So I can just keep playing what I have and like. When I got back into gaming with 5e I spend a lot of money with WotC, TTRPGs, Kickstarter, and Patreon, but just stopped after a 2‑3 years. My last campaign lasted 5 years. I had five years of play without having to buy anything new for 5e. After that campaign, I switched to Warhammer Fantasy Role Play 4e. So, I spent a lot of money buying everything for that game, which was not an insubstantial cost. But I don't complain about the fact that there a multiple companies publishing multiple games. I feel the same way about new editions. I don't need to buy them if I'm happy with what I have. The rational reasons I've seen for people being upset about new editions are:1. They can't find people to play with if they are not interested running the current edition (financially, this is a DM, not a player problem‑‑players generally don't have to buy anything but dice to play)2. They are very involved in organized play groups, which only run the current edition3. They play so much that they run out of published adventure material, don't want to create their own, and if they want to play new published adventures it is too hard to run the new adventures with the old rules. For those in the 3rd group, If you are playing that much and buying that many new adventures, I don't think cost of new rule books is the real issue. I think this should only be a problem if you don't like the new rules. Even then, it seems like it would be more of an issue for less popular systems. For games like D&D and Pathfinder there is just so much published material I don't see how you'd run out of adventures to run.</blockquote>

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