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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5245977" data-attributes="member: 158">Anyone who says 4E was the most bitter of the &quot;Edition Wars&quot; I have to disagree with, because I remember quite well the diatribes on rec.games.frp.dnd, and wizards' own usenet groups (before the days of their web forums!) of how 3E was going to turn D&amp;D into a video game, and how it was the death of real roleplaying, wizards got far too many spells, PCs had far too many hit points, and removing percentile strength just destroyed the realism of the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Only difference was that 2nd edition was a dying game, not very actively supported, and there was no OGL to stoke the fires of those left behind. The OGL not only gave the 3E community a venue for continuing to support the game they wanted -- it gave that venue to the AD&amp;D and Basic D&amp;D crowd as well, through the retro-clones, who had the legal ground to borrow proper terms and re-purpose them! (Papers &amp; Paychecks from OSRIC fame pretty much said he couldn't have done OSRIC without the OGL). That alone gave people the fire to move on. I imagine when 5E hits one day, the fan base will not be nearly as split because the support will dry up like a raisin in the sun thanks to the GSL.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 5245977, member: 158"] Anyone who says 4E was the most bitter of the "Edition Wars" I have to disagree with, because I remember quite well the diatribes on rec.games.frp.dnd, and wizards' own usenet groups (before the days of their web forums!) of how 3E was going to turn D&D into a video game, and how it was the death of real roleplaying, wizards got far too many spells, PCs had far too many hit points, and removing percentile strength just destroyed the realism of the game. :) Only difference was that 2nd edition was a dying game, not very actively supported, and there was no OGL to stoke the fires of those left behind. The OGL not only gave the 3E community a venue for continuing to support the game they wanted -- it gave that venue to the AD&D and Basic D&D crowd as well, through the retro-clones, who had the legal ground to borrow proper terms and re-purpose them! (Papers & Paychecks from OSRIC fame pretty much said he couldn't have done OSRIC without the OGL). That alone gave people the fire to move on. I imagine when 5E hits one day, the fan base will not be nearly as split because the support will dry up like a raisin in the sun thanks to the GSL. [/QUOTE]

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