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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5287299" data-attributes="member: 59082">I suppose on some level but not the same level as Essentials. The nature of a game as vast and detailed as D&amp;D is such that it is constantly evolving and changing. As many have mentioned, there were phases between 3.5 and 4.0; or you could say there were things in later 3.5 that paved the way for 4.0 (like Book of Nine Swords, which some have called &quot;3.75&quot;). In some sense you could say that any edition goes through a natural evolution from its first iteration (3.0 or 4.0) to gradual additions, expansions, errata, revisions, etc, until it finally gets to a point where it &quot;jumps&quot; off and a new edition comes out. But the markers that we use are somewhat arbitrary (&quot;3.5&quot; was probably poorly named if only because it was closer to 3.0 than it was to 4.0; &quot;revised&quot; probably would have worked better, as some have said).It is a bit like Zeno's arrow: you can continually halve the distance between the arrow and its target, but at some point it just &quot;gets there&quot; (with a new edition).(What puzzles me, though, is why this is such a hot topic. Why do people get so offended? It really doesn't matter, does it? And why can't this be discussed without people calling to question why someone would want to discuss it? If the topic doesn't interest or offends you, just move along...these aren't the droids you're looking for <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5287299, member: 59082"] I suppose on some level but not the same level as Essentials. The nature of a game as vast and detailed as D&D is such that it is constantly evolving and changing. As many have mentioned, there were phases between 3.5 and 4.0; or you could say there were things in later 3.5 that paved the way for 4.0 (like Book of Nine Swords, which some have called "3.75"). In some sense you could say that any edition goes through a natural evolution from its first iteration (3.0 or 4.0) to gradual additions, expansions, errata, revisions, etc, until it finally gets to a point where it "jumps" off and a new edition comes out. But the markers that we use are somewhat arbitrary ("3.5" was probably poorly named if only because it was closer to 3.0 than it was to 4.0; "revised" probably would have worked better, as some have said). It is a bit like Zeno's arrow: you can continually halve the distance between the arrow and its target, but at some point it just "gets there" (with a new edition). (What puzzles me, though, is why this is such a hot topic. Why do people get so offended? It really doesn't matter, does it? And why can't this be discussed without people calling to question why someone would want to discuss it? If the topic doesn't interest or offends you, just move along...these aren't the droids you're looking for ;)). [/QUOTE]

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