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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3794069" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Actually, my tastes have changed dramatically over the years as well. I've gone from pure hack and slash, into deep, political drama, to over the top action, to (probably very badly done) simulationism. </p><p></p><p>My point is, I could do any of those with any edition, and if you removed any rules references, you likely wouldn't be able to easily tell which edition it was for. A campaign with flying ships and flying castles, the PC's are a Minotaur, a couple of humans and a gnome. Which edition? 1e.</p><p></p><p>A campaign with alien invasion on Tripods? 2e</p><p></p><p>A pure dungeon romp - World's Largest Dungeon, 3e.</p><p></p><p>Could I do any of those in a different edition and they would play out almost exactly the same? Most certainly. That's why you can take modules from any edition and convert them into any other edition. It's work, of course, because the mechanics are different, but, ignoring the mechanics for a moment, there isn't a heck of a lot of difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3794069, member: 22779"] Actually, my tastes have changed dramatically over the years as well. I've gone from pure hack and slash, into deep, political drama, to over the top action, to (probably very badly done) simulationism. My point is, I could do any of those with any edition, and if you removed any rules references, you likely wouldn't be able to easily tell which edition it was for. A campaign with flying ships and flying castles, the PC's are a Minotaur, a couple of humans and a gnome. Which edition? 1e. A campaign with alien invasion on Tripods? 2e A pure dungeon romp - World's Largest Dungeon, 3e. Could I do any of those in a different edition and they would play out almost exactly the same? Most certainly. That's why you can take modules from any edition and convert them into any other edition. It's work, of course, because the mechanics are different, but, ignoring the mechanics for a moment, there isn't a heck of a lot of difference. [/QUOTE]
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