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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8917923" data-attributes="member: 67338"><p>no in general each edition (in my experience starting in 2e but hearing stories of 1e) is that people house rule and find problems and complain (back then at cons and in letters, now here and on twitter) and the next edition takes those ideas and fixes and moves forward... BUT</p><p></p><p>BIg BUT!!! But not everyone moves forward. You have some 'left behinds'</p><p></p><p>then like you said the new kids come in and don't know what a Thac0 is or that haste used to let you cast 2 spells. Those kids then push through the next iteration as well.</p><p></p><p>5e DID break this mold... instead of forward it looked back, no that is too harsh, but it did look back a lot while trying to look a little forward as well... </p><p></p><p>except by nukeing the OGL it WILL diversify the entry points. </p><p></p><p>I don't know what the next "Vampire Minds Eye Theater" will be, but if no one can make D&D adjacent products we will get a glut of new games and one of them WILL be the next big thing. It will create a new group of RPG players and it will broaden the entry points...</p><p></p><p>now if that is worth nueking the OGL, putting a ton of good people out of work and causeing new edition wars is debatable to say the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 8917923, member: 67338"] no in general each edition (in my experience starting in 2e but hearing stories of 1e) is that people house rule and find problems and complain (back then at cons and in letters, now here and on twitter) and the next edition takes those ideas and fixes and moves forward... BUT BIg BUT!!! But not everyone moves forward. You have some 'left behinds' then like you said the new kids come in and don't know what a Thac0 is or that haste used to let you cast 2 spells. Those kids then push through the next iteration as well. 5e DID break this mold... instead of forward it looked back, no that is too harsh, but it did look back a lot while trying to look a little forward as well... except by nukeing the OGL it WILL diversify the entry points. I don't know what the next "Vampire Minds Eye Theater" will be, but if no one can make D&D adjacent products we will get a glut of new games and one of them WILL be the next big thing. It will create a new group of RPG players and it will broaden the entry points... now if that is worth nueking the OGL, putting a ton of good people out of work and causeing new edition wars is debatable to say the least. [/QUOTE]
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