Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 5658674" data-attributes="member: 59411">The real nice thing about editions of anything is that they, by their inherent nature, don't invalidate one another. They leave everything from a previous edition intact, then start in on something new, and then eventually leave that edition intact and move on to something new. The only ones invalidating anything are the people who feel the need to elevate one over the other, or defend one by bashing the other, or otherwise play some silly argumentative games for +20 pages. This boggles my mind, as the only real complaint that could be made against a new edition is that the older edition is no longer receiving support, and at this given time EVERY edition of D&D is being supported, very well in fact, and even forging ahead into new, divergent design. I'm not sure I can even think of an honest complaint a new edition could have of an older edition, save whatever detrimental attention designers might give to it (at a cost of new settings versus endless conversions, or the risk of apologist design moving mechanics backward instead of forward). Everyone's entitled to their opinions of how and why and what they might have wanted, and certainly everyone will have a preferred edition. There's good discussion in there, but this venom that always froths to the surface is really aggravating.</blockquote>