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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 8986410" data-attributes="member: 6780330">Honestly, that's just corporate BS piling corporate BS: &quot;Advanced&quot; Dungeons &amp; Dragons was a cynical and transparent legal ploy that didn't even hold up in court, and it wasn't even the line most people had played prior to 3E, by all the numbers I've seen. &quot;Basic&quot; was the mainline for most of the game. That they've recognized the absurdity of the naming scheme and are trying to avoid it is equally silly as a &quot;.5&quot; Edition, on the face of it: no more, no less.If they came clean and called the new revision 17th Edition (I counted previously: it's at least the 17th full rules revision, arguably up to the 21st; one can also make a reasonable case for 9th Edition based on publiahing standards, since it will be the 9th set of ISBNs for the titles PHB and DMG though only 7th for the Monster Manual), that would be sensible but probably confusing for people. And avoiding market confusion is their prime directive here: for 12 year olds and their relatives browsing the vooks section of Target at Christmas, not hobbyists who can follow our bananas conversations here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 8986410, member: 6780330"] Honestly, that's just corporate BS piling corporate BS: "Advanced" Dungeons & Dragons was a cynical and transparent legal ploy that didn't even hold up in court, and it wasn't even the line most people had played prior to 3E, by all the numbers I've seen. "Basic" was the mainline for most of the game. That they've recognized the absurdity of the naming scheme and are trying to avoid it is equally silly as a ".5" Edition, on the face of it: no more, no less. If they came clean and called the new revision 17th Edition (I counted previously: it's at least the 17th full rules revision, arguably up to the 21st; one can also make a reasonable case for 9th Edition based on publiahing standards, since it will be the 9th set of ISBNs for the titles PHB and DMG though only 7th for the Monster Manual), that would be sensible but probably confusing for people. And avoiding market confusion is their prime directive here: for 12 year olds and their relatives browsing the vooks section of Target at Christmas, not hobbyists who can follow our bananas conversations here. [/QUOTE]

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