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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 7989437" data-attributes="member: 6695890">D&D is the 2010-ish Apple of RPGs.It's not revolutionary. Pretty much everything in it is inspired by something from another game. However, what it does is take a lot of innovative ideas, get them to work in harmony and polish them and present them to the mainstream (of RPG players), often for the first time. It does that while also remaining deeply familiar so that basically none of the audience say "That's not D&D". What's more, people who liked 3e say there's a lot of 3e in it. People who liked 2e say there's a lot of 2e in it. 4e... well, that's more complicated. I personally liked 4e, and I see a lot of 4e in it. But I liked 3e and 2e too, so...Basically, 5e is a game that works better than any previous edition, and in more scenarios. It has its faults, and it definitely has people who dislike it for various reasons, but it's the most popular edition (almost certainly ever, but certainly since the 80s) for a good reason.(... one of these days, I will make a proper post about this; I've seen a lot of discussion about 5e not being innovative because it's got a lot of ideas derived from other games, but it is innovative in putting them all together for the mainstream, in a polished form.)</blockquote>