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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5097909" data-attributes="member: 29398">Well said.The key part is this: [re flexibility] "It gives you real ownership of the game."  And that is huge!  What other game out there can you really say is *yours*?And yes, the same flexibility has become something of a curse in this newer age of mass communications.  25 years ago, why would I care about how the game was being played anywhere else as long as my own table was rocking.  But now I sort of have to care in order to functionally participate in discussions like these; and I'd be required to care were I playing or running a newer edition where interchangeability between games/campaigns has more become the norm (at least as far as I can tell).As for the argument that poker presents as much variety: I'd posit that the different versions of poker are vaguely analagous to the different editions of D+D.  What sets D+D apart is the variance of play experience within a single edition, and I don't think poker can match that.Lan-"the game I play is mine"-efan</blockquote>