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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3756245" data-attributes="member: 48965">You know, I see this argument thrown about like it's a fact, but the sad reality is it's not a definite.I see plenty of people online trying to get a group together, talking about their group splitting up, etc.  D&D doesn't come ready to play with the purchase of the rulebooks, and life is if anything, full of unexpected twists.  Yet, if you bought 3.0, you got 3years of enjoyment out of it...this just isn't necessarily true.  The other problem is that if you had trouble getting a group together when the rules were current, it becomes magnitudes more difficult when you're trying to recruit using old rules.As far as other RPG's and different editions...I wish people would really look at the context of a "new edition" with other games.  There is no way you can play 3.5 with an AD&D 1e PHB as your only source and a friend with a copy of D&D 3.5.  On the other hand you can play with any edition of Call of Cthulhu with only minor adjustments.  Old World of Darkness was mostly meta plot revisions when they brought out a "new edition" the rules on the other hand were largely the same, until New World of Darkness came out.</blockquote>