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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5842530" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'm just saying, the game is not going to satisfy everyone or even quite a few people simply by being 'modular'. YOU may find the 3e 'NPCs must follow the same rules' people kind of ridiculous and not in need of being catered to, but those people will want 1PP material that works that way. Maybe most are not too extreme about it, but I think you can easily find threads full of debate about it right here on Enworld. My point about psionics is that if you wanted to use psionics in 1e then SOME modules would need rewriting in some degree. Of course psionics were not used a lot, so it was not a big deal. Now substitute "Vancian Casting with open-ended spells" for "psionics" and 5e for '1e'... It has nothing to do with genre feel.Otherwise, no, I don't totally disagree with you. You can do a bit of this and that, but honestly the real struggle here is over 'feel' of the game and how people play it. I don't understand how a game that tries to modularize that in some fashion can work. It has to eventually pick a style of game that it supports. Believe me, the best they can do is produce an edition that pleases the largest splinter group around, and MAYBE mollifies some others enough that they buy it still. I don't understand the point.</blockquote>