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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5692745" data-attributes="member: 32536">I don't want to see a definitive edition of D&D. If such a thing had to exist, I'd at least hope it would not emerge for a long time. D&D is still a very, very young game. It has a long way to go before it is ready for someone to say "this version of D&D is good enough to last". As far as I'm concerned, 3E was a big improvement over older editions, but wasn't good enough. 4e was a big improvement over 3E, but still isn't good enough. D&D can be better, and to be better it needs to grow, change, and evolve. Maybe after a hundred years of improvements and refinements an "eternal edition" can be created, but even then I bet it will still get new editions and changes every so often, and I'll continue to look forward to them.I mean, people here have talked about Monopoly like it is unchanging, but that simply isn't true. Sure, it was mostly unchanging from the mid-nineteen-thirties to 2008, but that isn't its entire history. The 1938 edition is pretty different from the original 1904 game that inspired it, after all. And of course, the big thing is that Monopoly has gone through a major rule change more recently than 4E was released. The "Speed Die" and other rule changes in 2008 represent a major change to the game. Monopoly is a changing game that gets new editions just as much as anything else. All games change.If you want to look at how false the idea of an "eternal game" is, look at the oldest board game still being played: Go. It was played as early as the 4th century BC, but the board underwent important changes as late as a millennium later. The game received major changes that massively changes its strategy as the 20th century, with refinements of those changes continuing still even now. As eternal as Go has been, it still has room to improve, and will continue to improve. And that's a good thing.</blockquote>

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