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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 5424137" data-attributes="member: 363">I'm getting fatigued with new editions. Set aside the expense; I'm just getting tired of having to "buy in" and re-learn the game every few years now. I realize they need to make money to stay in business. I'm more than happy to buy adventures or accessories, maybe a splatbook here and there, or even to subscribe to the online stuff. It's just the matter of having to learn a new version of the same game. I have tons of other, non-D&D, RPGs, and I don't mind buying and playing a new one if it's significantly different from others that I have. For that matter, I even enjoyed buying d20 games/sourcebooks that covered genres I had an interest in but weren't directly related to D&D's default setting - Mutants & Masterminds, Medieval Players Handbook, The Black Company, stuff like that. They added to or modified the game I already knew in ways that interested me. Buying what is essentially a new game system every few years that should cover the same ground doesn't appeal to me as much anymore. I mean, I like Monopoly, and I think all the various versions of it are cool, but at its core it's the same game. If they retooled Monopoly (or Panzer Leader, or chess) at its core every 3-5 years, I think I'd get fatigued of it, too. None of this is a knock on 4e, which I like. It's just...well, like I said, I'm a bit tired of learning a new D&D every few years, especially when it's so hard to get what few players I can round up to play, only to have them still wanting to play older editions.</blockquote>

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