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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4164803" data-attributes="member: 19675">The differences between the various eras is important.When they said it about 3Ed, they were talking out of ignorance- 2Ed and the company that owned it were in decline.  In contrast, between WotC and the 3rd party publishers, the 3.X environment is quite robust.Most of the changes between 1Ed and 2Ed were, in some ways, cosmetic- the To-Hit charts turned to THAC0, for instance.  It was more like the switch from 3Ed to 3.5 than anything else.  In addition, there were no real substitutes for D&D at the time.  Sure, games like Runequest had their fans (like me, for instance) but no one was seriously challenging D&D for the throne.Here, the risk isn't an outside product overtopping D&D, its the revision underperforming.I'm not being a doomdreamer here ( <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), I'm just pointing out a particular difficulty.For all I know 4Ed could wipe the floor with 3.5...and every other game on the market.  It could also wind up getting seriously bloodied.The most likely scenario is that it rules the market in some way.  The real question is by how much.  Is it 4Ed über alles, or does it have to get some kind of power-sharing agreement and form a coalition government with 3.X?</blockquote>

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