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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6636164" data-attributes="member: 50895">I only play one version of D&D currently, and that's Pathfinder, but even when I played other editions, I only played one edition at a time. I see no reason why anyone needs nor wants to learn more than one edition at the same time, ever. As far as becoming obsolete, RPGs aren't computers, if you play AD&D 1e its not obsolete, just because its no longer published means absolutely nothing. If you were happy with 3.0, why does the release of 3.5 mean anything at all - just don't play the next version, play what you're comfortable with. Let's put it this way, I was still playing AD&D 2e five years into the release of 3x, I never saw 3.0 at all until well after 3.5 was released. I didn't start playing 3.5 until 2 years before it was no longer published. I have no need to stay current with any rules set. The only reason I jumped on to Pathfinder at its beginning is that I wanted to become a third party publisher with my own published setting, and at the time Paizo hadn't released an oriental game, so I created the <a href="http://drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2373/Rite-Publishing/subcategory/4448_6626/Kaidan" target="_blank">Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG)</a>. Though I could have released it as a 3.5 product, I didn't want to compete with OA Rokugan 3x, I wanted to be the only setting within a given theme for a given edition - I wanted to be first. It was too late to be first in 3x, so Pathfinder was the perfect fit. Paizo eventually released the Jade Regent Adventure Path, which Paizo hired me to write the City of Kasai gazetteer and do the original hand-drawn map for the City of Kasai in The Empty Throne module of the Jade Regent AP - so my efforts to be first actually got me work as a contributing author for Paizo Publishing.At this point in time, for example, I see no reason to ever look at 5e, I don't need nor want it. It might be a better game, but I don't really care, my game plays just fine. I may look at it someday, but that might not be for years and years to come. A new release of anything (RPGs or otherwise) does not compel to buy just because - I have to actually need it to move forward with any purchase.</blockquote>

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