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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adndgamer" data-source="post: 3932302" data-attributes="member: 2764">D&D has been remade a number of times, and each time there has been upset and turmoil over the switch. I started on 2nd edition (black books).  I played some 1st edition, and some original D&D.  I was pissed off about the switch to 3E.  Completely new mechanics, new look... I hated it.  I pledged that I would never switch over.  Over time I succumbed to it, and it grew on me.  After playing 3e for a few years (geeze.. I guess since it came out at GenCon), I can't imagine going back to 2nd edition.  Then, a while back my friends started playing 3.5.  More small rule changes. Different spell lists, but not too huge.Now we have 4th Edition on the horizon (though I see it's been pushed back from 2008 to 2011?).  Lots of changes are looming.  Some of what I've heard makes me interested, other things make me afraid.The fact is, D&D is what you and your group make of it.  It's open to change enough that your gaming group can play however you want.  Don't like dwarves or halflings using magic? Don't let them.  Want your paladins to be LG? Decree that they are and it is so.  Or, find a new gaming group.  There are plenty of old-school gamers who like things the traditional way, even if they're playing a new system.D&D never was about the rules so much as getting together with your friends, goofing around for a lot of the time, and playing through the game the rest of the time  -- all the while consuming mass quantities of junk food and soda and doing what we do best -- geeking it up.If 4th Edition does suck, the market will respond and they'll fix it, or we'll continue to play 3E/3.5.</blockquote>

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