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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 3943574" data-attributes="member: 40177">You know, I used to have a bunch of 1e Shadowrun stuff, that I could still use with 2nd edition shadowrun, and I think could probably be used in a 3e shadowrun game.&nbsp; I don't know 4th edition shadowrun, though.My first edition Star Wars d6 books work perfectly fine with 2nd edition.Ditto for Earthdawn, actually....and I'm sure you can all think of other examples.What I'm wondering (and I may have asked this before, but I don't think I got a response) is, well - D&amp;D seems to change into a new game every eight years or so.BECMI isn't really compatible with 1e or 2e (Well, it is, if you're willing to do a bit of work, but the systems are rather different).&nbsp; And god forbid you try to mix anything from TSR with anything from WotC.&nbsp; 3e might be to 4e what 1e is to 2e, from what I gather.&nbsp; So, really, you've got three different versions of D&amp;D - BECMI D&amp;D, &quot;Advanced&quot; D&amp;D, and WotC D&amp;D.&nbsp; None are truly compatible &quot;out of the box&quot;.&nbsp; Is D&amp;D the only game that does this?&nbsp; What other examples can you think of?&nbsp; And, here's the meat of the question:&nbsp; why does D&amp;D do this?After all, it is the most popular RPG.&nbsp; By my logic, that should mean it would stay the same, yet it doesn't.&nbsp; Discuss.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 3943574, member: 40177"] You know, I used to have a bunch of 1e Shadowrun stuff, that I could still use with 2nd edition shadowrun, and I think could probably be used in a 3e shadowrun game. I don't know 4th edition shadowrun, though. My first edition Star Wars d6 books work perfectly fine with 2nd edition. Ditto for Earthdawn, actually. ...and I'm sure you can all think of other examples. What I'm wondering (and I may have asked this before, but I don't think I got a response) is, well - D&D seems to change into a new game every eight years or so. BECMI isn't really compatible with 1e or 2e (Well, it is, if you're willing to do a bit of work, but the systems are rather different). And god forbid you try to mix anything from TSR with anything from WotC. 3e might be to 4e what 1e is to 2e, from what I gather. So, really, you've got three different versions of D&D - BECMI D&D, "Advanced" D&D, and WotC D&D. None are truly compatible "out of the box". Is D&D the only game that does this? What other examples can you think of? And, here's the meat of the question: [b]why does D&D do this?[/b] After all, it is the most popular RPG. By my logic, that should mean it would stay the same, yet it doesn't. Discuss. ;) [/QUOTE]

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