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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 7164685" data-attributes="member: 6667921">I wanted to quickly express my appreciation for the support in maintaining this thread as an engaging and civilized discussion. I began making this post late last evening until I felt it was turning into a small rant and took some more time to gather my thoughts. I'm only human, but I try to do better.Unrelated to my potential rant, I do want to respond to this real quick:I'm not going to split hairs on this, and I don't want this thread to devolve into an unnecessary debate. What I was trying to say is that 5th Edition more closely resembles 3rd Edition (and previous editions, for that matter) than it does 4th Edition. And in the context of what I was trying to say, I was implying that maybe some of the people who have lapsed during 4th Edition because they didn't like it, found it to be closer to the system they were more familiar with and expected it to be. That is all.I do find it interesting, however, that you focused on the negative aspects of the 3rd Edition attempting to divorce any correlation from this new and improved edition. It was not meant to be a slight, though curious to see that invoked such a defensive response. That said, any response delving into the likes/unlikes between the system is more likely to derail this thread entirely. But I do feel it merits its own discussion... one which may already exist somewhere else on these boards. Good topic, though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jacob Lewis, post: 7164685, member: 6667921"] I wanted to quickly express my appreciation for the support in maintaining this thread as an engaging and civilized discussion. I began making this post late last evening until I felt it was turning into a small rant and took some more time to gather my thoughts. I'm only human, but I try to do better. Unrelated to my potential rant, I do want to respond to this real quick: I'm not going to split hairs on this, and I don't want this thread to devolve into an unnecessary debate. What I was trying to say is that 5th Edition more closely resembles 3rd Edition (and previous editions, for that matter) than it does 4th Edition. And in the context of what I was trying to say, I was implying that maybe some of the people who have lapsed during 4th Edition because they didn't like it, found it to be closer to the system they were more familiar with and expected it to be. That is all. I do find it interesting, however, that you focused on the negative aspects of the 3rd Edition attempting to divorce any correlation from this new and improved edition. It was not meant to be a slight, though curious to see that invoked such a defensive response. That said, any response delving into the likes/unlikes between the system is more likely to derail this thread entirely. But I do feel it merits its own discussion... one which may already exist somewhere else on these boards. Good topic, though. [/QUOTE]

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