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<blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 5790559" data-attributes="member: 1231">I really do not think .5 revisions ought to count as new editions, for the most part. Part of how you tell an edition from another is whether it forms part of a &quot;publishing cycle&quot; that includes certain book indicators beyond the PHB, DMG, and the MM. Essentials was always meant to be an outgrowth of 4E, played as the same game. So 4E and Essentials were, for our purposes, one edition.You could make a better argument for v3.5 being an actual edition, but I think the fact that v3.5 does not reprint important book topics such as the Manual of the Planes and Deities &amp; Demigods means that, at heart, it is still the same product line.2nd Editions Skills &amp; Powers falls outside my personal experience, but do the points I made for Essentials and v3.5 not both apply to it? If such is the case, it is clearly part of 2nd Edition.1st Edition is also different from 2nd Edition in that each has their own set of the &quot; iconic supplements &quot; , correct? As I have said before, I think the only real ambiguity here is the treatment of the &quot; Basic Spectrum &quot; .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaodi, post: 5790559, member: 1231"] I really do not think .5 revisions ought to count as new editions, for the most part. Part of how you tell an edition from another is whether it forms part of a "publishing cycle" that includes certain book indicators beyond the PHB, DMG, and the MM. Essentials was always meant to be an outgrowth of 4E, played as the same game. So 4E and Essentials were, for our purposes, one edition. You could make a better argument for v3.5 being an actual edition, but I think the fact that v3.5 does not reprint important book topics such as the Manual of the Planes and Deities & Demigods means that, at heart, it is still the same product line. 2nd Editions Skills & Powers falls outside my personal experience, but do the points I made for Essentials and v3.5 not both apply to it? If such is the case, it is clearly part of 2nd Edition. 1st Edition is also different from 2nd Edition in that each has their own set of the " iconic supplements " , correct? As I have said before, I think the [I]only[/I] real ambiguity here is the treatment of the " Basic Spectrum " . [/QUOTE]

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