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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5690857" data-attributes="member: 957">There is one big difference in the Football / Monopoly comparison.Everyone agrees that Football is a sport but no version of Football has ever been confused for Baseball or called Baseball.  Every tweak of Football has remained unquestionably not just still "a sport" but distinctly "football".And every change to Monopoly has remained a board game, but never a board game that would be confused for Chutes and Ladders or even one that would not be readily recognized as Monopoly.There are a lot of different sports and a lot of different board games.  But individual examples within each remain distinct, even with perpetual tweaks.There are also a lot of RPGs.  GURPS and 1E D&D are as different as baseball and football.  Yes, they are both obviously RPGs just as football and baseball are obviously sports.  And yet in neither case would the two be confused for one another.And 3E and 4E are also just as different.  The problem is they have the same freaking name.  You don't repackage Chutes and Ladders in a Monopoly Box and call it the new version of Monopoly.  And if you did and found yourself having trouble trying to figure out how to go forward, trying to find a unified Monopoly/Chutes and Ladders game would be among the worst of possible solutions.And this exact same issue was true when 3E replaced 2E.  I think there were other factors that made this issue vastly less relevant that time, but no less true.</blockquote>

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