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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightfly" data-source="post: 8714132" data-attributes="member: 89601">God forgive me if this post ignites an edition war, but...Yes, I think 5e is special. It has just enough crunch to be interesting and then gets out of your way. That was emphatically not true of either 3e or 4e, and largely wasn't even true of Basic, even though that was explicitly the point of Basic. If D&D still made you do lots of math every time you attacked, there's no way it would be this popular now.5e probably doesn't get enough credit for being such a splendid iteration of the rules. I've been playing since 1e, even before Basic came out, and 5e is in my eyes the best version ever. There's no way D&D would be even half as popular if we still had THAC0, or the full-page monster stat blocks of 3e, or the three-hour combats of 4e.</blockquote>