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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5779095" data-attributes="member: 8461">Looking at the various threads about people discussing the virtues of major changes to D&D has made me really think about how the game has changed over the years since its creation.The first few incarnations of D&D didn't seem to change so much as they "grew." Lightly-detailed systems blossomed into more complex systems, alongside clean-ups and expansions. Little was truly thrown out or out-and-out changed as we went through OD&D to BD&D to AD&D 1E to AD&D 2E.That all changed with Third Edition.3E was a fairly radical re-invention of the game rules. True, it still kept a lot of continuity in various areas, but for the first time the game really seemed to outright throw out a lot of the older ways of doing things and replace them with new mechanics.Fourth edition continued this trend, and from what I'm reading here, a lot of people are expecting, or even advocating, that 5E do this as well.Given that, I'm led to wonder...is this how it is for most other RPGs?I'm not very well-versed in table-top RPGs besides D&D; I know things about them, but I've owned and played very few. From what little I do know, however, most RPGs don't change to the extent that D&D has been when they go to a new edition. Most of their edition updates are in the manner of pre-3E D&D - errors are fixed, areas of mechanics are grown/split/consolidated, but not entirely replaced. A new edition of the game was, in its rules, immediately recognizable as being the same as the previous edition with just some minor tweaking.D&D seems to be caught in a cycle where it has to out-and-out reinvent itself with each new edition. I'm wondering just what the effects of this are, and if they're a good thing.</blockquote>

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