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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5778338" data-attributes="member: 32740">My question then would be what are you intending to use a the tentpole?&nbsp; Sure, get everybody under the same curcus tent canvas out of the rain, wind, harsh sun, but SOME people are then still going to be standing under the bleachers near the door flap while others are sitting front row-center ring.&nbsp; In short - even if we're all under the same big tent not everybody is going to be equally happy.&nbsp;Is it going to be a 3 ring circus where 1E, 3E and 4E are all playing at the same time so that while you laugh at the clowns piling out of the little car you don't see the thrilling antics of the Flying Wallendas?&nbsp; Easier by far to just say, &quot;Let's all get along,&quot; than to handwave away years of acrimony and divergence of what makes D&amp;D better and why.&nbsp;My own opinion is that despite its flaws 1E would make the best tentpole.&nbsp; Yet I know that others will only be dragged into THAT kind of tent kicking and screaming - just as I know I would if certain other editions wind up with too heavy a focus.&nbsp; I may not want to buy a ticket and just go back to my Flea Circus rather than be driven mad by the calliope.&nbsp; Actually, considering how thinly I've now stretched the metaphor I think that may have already happened.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5778338, member: 32740"] My question then would be what are you intending to use a the tentpole? Sure, get everybody under the same curcus tent canvas out of the rain, wind, harsh sun, but SOME people are then still going to be standing under the bleachers near the door flap while others are sitting front row-center ring. In short - even if we're all under the same big tent not everybody is going to be equally happy. Is it going to be a 3 ring circus where 1E, 3E and 4E are all playing at the same time so that while you laugh at the clowns piling out of the little car you don't see the thrilling antics of the Flying Wallendas? Easier by far to just say, "Let's all get along," than to handwave away years of acrimony and divergence of what makes D&D better and why. My own opinion is that despite its flaws 1E would make the best tentpole. Yet I know that others will only be dragged into THAT kind of tent kicking and screaming - just as I know I would if certain other editions wind up with too heavy a focus. I may not want to buy a ticket and just go back to my Flea Circus rather than be driven mad by the calliope. Actually, considering how thinly I've now stretched the metaphor I think that may have already happened. [/QUOTE]

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