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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6249885" data-attributes="member: 6670763">Dungeons & Dragons is just a name, that doesn't stand for anything specific anymore. All the editions until D&D 2nd Edition where relatively consistent in what they are and how they are different from other RPGs. 3rd Edition was a major step to something different, but to a large number of people it still at least felt like a different take on the old and familar standards and aspects.4th Edition just was something completely else that didn't continue the tradition of what the lable D&D stood for, and at that point it became just a name that could mean a lot of things. And now we have a couple of games, both OSR games and Pathfinder, that represent that tradition a lot better than the game currently running under the brand D&D.5th Edition could potentially, or rather theoretically, fix this by once again representing those things people have associated with the lable D&D for decades. But as of now there doesn't seem any indication that the game is going to get played by a major fraction of the people who like "old D&D".And I think in this age, we don't really need an RPG company with an almost-monopoly of the market. I like the current situation of a lot of creators trying out different things for several smaller niches a lot more. Everybody wins.Except the people who once paid a lot of money for the brand name D&D...</blockquote>