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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drowbane" data-source="post: 5924370" data-attributes="member: 23396">Disclaimer: I am a 3e gamer, so my views of what went down may not agree with yours. This is *not* an invitation to Edition War, don't try to refute my views as its pointless. Just post your own.WotC saves D&D!: TSR was going down and WotC flexed its magic muscles and bought the brand. To keep the brand going, WotC figured a new edition was in order. And this wasn't just a slight change up of 2e or a return to Basic, it was largely a whole new beast. 3.0: I remember being *very* skeptical of this new edition, after all I still have a fortune in 2e books and our weekly games are going strong. However, WotC had just saved D&D from obscurity as TSR was going down quick, so I gave it a thorough look through. 3e was radically different from anything come before. While some grognards loathe these changes, some of us recognized that 3e was chock full of "modern" innovations for the game. Gone was THAC0 and "backwards AC", Saving Throws reduced to just 3, Skills and Feats replace Weapon proficiences, Non-Weapon Proficiences, and "Special Talents" (early feats, from such books as 2e's Combat and Tactics). Biggest gripe I have seen: Core Wizard, Cleric, and Druid > the other 8 classes. 3.5: three short years after 3.0 is released. Many of us considered this "semi-new edition" come too soon" and as just an obvious ploy to resell the Core books. Sure, 3.5 had some fixes, but not all the changes were an improvement (huh, reminds me of PF...).Certain of the later books were seen as potential material for an eventual 4e. Such as Star Wars Saga (not "D&D", but considering that Star Wars d20 was based on 3e...) and Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords. 4e: five years (?) after 3.5 is released what some of us hoped would be something that Fixed 3e's ills was instead unrecognizably different from what we thought of as D&D. Unlike the changes from 2e into 3e, 4e was not a bunch of improvements over 3e.As 4e was still being worked on, there were Pod Casts of WotC peeps blasting earlier D&D tropes. Very childish and not well received, at least in these parts. DDI: WotC murdered Dungeon and Dragon mag (which was run beautifully by Paizo for its last couple years) for a PoS online version that never came close to replacing what was lost. I still miss my hardcopy magazines, and I am unlikely to forgive WotC for this.4.5: (read: Essentials): WotC releases the pseudo-edition it said it never would, 4.5. One in my group bought into this, the rest of us refused (ahem, I didn't buy into 4e at all).5e: Two years (?) after Essentials WotC says, "Next!", and claims that this will be the One Edition to Rule them All or some such nonsense.As another said, WotC let go some of the most talented people in the industry... No doubt I am missing some things.</blockquote>

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