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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acolyte of Zothique" data-source="post: 7816806" data-attributes="member: 6852701">Your first comment 'popularity does not equate to quality'. Let me turn that around.5e edition, while not the end all and be all of D&D style games, is the first to have undergone extensive public playtesting and to have inputs from a variety of different people in the RPG industry. It's also the first edition of D&D to have been in print 5+ years - since AD&D2E - with the PHB still proving a bestseller and all the 5e books still in print. In my personal experience, I've had many new players enjoy the game to the extent they have gone off to play in other 5e games or become DMs themselves. I would strongly argue none of this would have happened if 5E was not a quality game which appeals to a majority. In our social media saturated world poor quality would have killed 5e by now. That quality has also been a factor in it's popularity and enduring appeal. Quality does equate to popularity, the game's commercial success is an objectively incontrovertible measure of this. You don't like 5e? Fine. I don't like Earl Grey tea. You can't please all of the people all the time.Your views are as valid as anyone elses. I have never argued that they are not. However, they come across as an inflammatory attack on 5e due to the language used - edition warring. So what is the point of that language? Your view appears to be you hate 5e.  It's valid but it antagonises people who like 5e. So is that viewpoint really worth expressing?</blockquote>

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