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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6303563" data-attributes="member: 18">How would a new player know, though, that's the thing? I didn't know what editions were. It was AD&amp;D, it said so right there on the cover! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I wasn't looking for any edition information, because I had no reason to think it was relevant.I think most people new to RPGs, and not familiar with the fact that many RPGs have editions which are wildly incompatible with each other (and many others have highly compatible ones, to help confuse the issue further!), aren't, instinctively, going to be looking for an edition logo, they're going to be looking for a title.The one thing that works in 5E's favour is that people normally buy the newest thing (as I did), but you know people out there are going to do things like buy a 4E PHB because it was cheaper, and it said Dungeons &amp; Dragons Player's Handbook on the cover, didn't it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Even as an adult, one of my friends nearly bought a 3.5E PHB not all that long ago (we play 4E). This is a very smart man (a very senior doctor, actually), he was just enthusiastic, buying online, and looking for the best price, and didn't look closely enough, but he did check with me so it was narrowly averted! I know I've seen other people actually buy wrong-edition stuff before, though.I'm not saying this is a huge problem or anything, just that it will happen, from time to time, and it doesn't have much to do with people being dumb or whatever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 6303563, member: 18"] How would a new player know, though, that's the thing? I didn't know what editions were. It was AD&D, it said so right there on the cover! :) I wasn't looking for any edition information, because I had no reason to think it was relevant. I think most people new to RPGs, and not familiar with the fact that many RPGs have editions which are wildly incompatible with each other (and many others have highly compatible ones, to help confuse the issue further!), aren't, instinctively, going to be looking for an edition logo, they're going to be looking for a title. The one thing that works in 5E's favour is that people normally buy the newest thing (as I did), but you know people out there are going to do things like buy a 4E PHB because it was cheaper, and it said Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook on the cover, didn't it? :) Even as an adult, one of my friends nearly bought a 3.5E PHB not all that long ago (we play 4E). This is a very smart man (a very senior doctor, actually), he was just enthusiastic, buying online, and looking for the best price, and didn't look closely enough, but he did check with me so it was narrowly averted! I know I've seen other people actually buy wrong-edition stuff before, though. I'm not saying this is a huge problem or anything, just that it will happen, from time to time, and it doesn't have much to do with people being dumb or whatever. [/QUOTE]

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