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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 9110297" data-attributes="member: 53082">I think the meat of the question is not just an older edition - it's playing anything outside of the current edition of D&amp;D. The answer is that you don't lose anything - as Stormonu says above there are a ton of great games out there and restricting yourself to one is just a shame. I've been running Deadlands for most of the last two years and will likely finish that up in the next month or two. A few weeks ago I ran a tryout session of the new Marvel game. Over the weekend I ran a tryout session of WFRP 2E because it's what I have rather than the current 4th edition version of that game.I'd say we stay with an edition of a game or a particular game until it feels like we've run through all of the immediate possibilities with the system or the setting. I've run d6 Star Wars and FFG Star Wars both in the past year because that's what felt right for the players at the time and the campaign we wanted to play. We stuck with 3E well past 4E's release. We stuck with Pathfinder for quite a while as well. Then we stuck with 4E well after 5th's release - if we're in the middle of a campaign we're probably not switching rules just because some new ones came out. It's -our- game, not the company's. The only time it can be a problem is when you're playing with strangers at a store or trying to start up a new group or possibly playing online. I've had at least one regular in-person group going back to the 80's and some of my current players go back to then or the 90's and some have joined in the past year so maybe it doesn't matter all that much. Some conversation between the DM and the players is really all it takes to run through some good options. There's really no benefit to saying &quot;I only play the latest edition of this particular game&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 9110297, member: 53082"] I think the meat of the question is not just an older edition - it's playing anything outside of the current edition of D&D. The answer is that you don't lose anything - as Stormonu says above there are a ton of great games out there and restricting yourself to one is just a shame. I've been running Deadlands for most of the last two years and will likely finish that up in the next month or two. A few weeks ago I ran a tryout session of the new Marvel game. Over the weekend I ran a tryout session of WFRP 2E because it's what I have rather than the current 4th edition version of that game. I'd say we stay with an edition of a game or a particular game until it feels like we've run through all of the immediate possibilities with the system or the setting. I've run d6 Star Wars and FFG Star Wars both in the past year because that's what felt right for the players at the time and the campaign we wanted to play. We stuck with 3E well past 4E's release. We stuck with Pathfinder for quite a while as well. Then we stuck with 4E well after 5th's release - if we're in the middle of a campaign we're probably not switching rules just because some new ones came out. It's -our- game, not the company's. The only time it can be a problem is when you're playing with strangers at a store or trying to start up a new group or possibly playing online. I've had at least one regular in-person group going back to the 80's and some of my current players go back to then or the 90's and some have joined in the past year so maybe it doesn't matter all that much. Some conversation between the DM and the players is really all it takes to run through some good options. There's really no benefit to saying "I only play the latest edition of this particular game". [/QUOTE]

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