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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8246655" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Is this really a thing though? I mean I have a few people on ignore, but most grogs here, on ENworld, seem appreciative of 5E, and don't seem to indicate things peaked in OD&D or 1E or whenever.</p><p></p><p>This is an interesting perspective to me.</p><p></p><p>I'd definitely agree that 5E is a sidegrade from 4E. They're both basically what I wanted from 3E. 5E is more like what I expected from 3E before I heard anything about the mechanics. 4E was more like what I hoped for.</p><p></p><p>Re: downgrades, it's impossible for me to agree that 2E was a downgrade from 1E, but I could definitely see it as a sidegrade. Overall I would agree 3E was a downgrade from 2E. The design was, de facto, worse for the kind of gameplay we enjoyed. Now, we're provided-for now, with Dungeon World, 5E, countless quasi-OSR games and so on, but 3E nearly killed D&D for my group.</p><p></p><p>The only edition of D&D I really like design-wise, weirdly enough, is RC D&D, which we barely played compared to other editions, but it nails a lot of what is best about D&D, design-wise. I kind of wish instead of 5E WotC had just resurrected RC D&D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8246655, member: 18"] Is this really a thing though? I mean I have a few people on ignore, but most grogs here, on ENworld, seem appreciative of 5E, and don't seem to indicate things peaked in OD&D or 1E or whenever. This is an interesting perspective to me. I'd definitely agree that 5E is a sidegrade from 4E. They're both basically what I wanted from 3E. 5E is more like what I expected from 3E before I heard anything about the mechanics. 4E was more like what I hoped for. Re: downgrades, it's impossible for me to agree that 2E was a downgrade from 1E, but I could definitely see it as a sidegrade. Overall I would agree 3E was a downgrade from 2E. The design was, de facto, worse for the kind of gameplay we enjoyed. Now, we're provided-for now, with Dungeon World, 5E, countless quasi-OSR games and so on, but 3E nearly killed D&D for my group. The only edition of D&D I really like design-wise, weirdly enough, is RC D&D, which we barely played compared to other editions, but it nails a lot of what is best about D&D, design-wise. I kind of wish instead of 5E WotC had just resurrected RC D&D. [/QUOTE]
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