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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9176974" data-attributes="member: 7035894">With regards to the charge of edition warring and the article in question, that is not my take on that article, which I find quite thoughtful. I find even mentioning 4e, in particular, on this forum is very risky because anything that isn't 100% positive is often taken as a personal attack, so you have to be careful to frame everything very explicitly in terms of personal preference and, even then, it's generally best not to go there. But that can make it difficult to bring up even non-controversial facts when discussing a larger point (i.e. reasons that 5e been particularly strong in terms of sales).For me, edition warring isn't criticizing an edition, or every post that criticizes this or that aspect of 5e would be edition warring...which would be a LOT of posts. We have to be able to critically examine all versions of the game, not just the current one. Edition warring is when one starts acting like one's subjective preferences are objective facts, and criticizing other folks for having different taste. But we have to be able to critically evaluate different editions without being accused of edition warring.</blockquote>