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<blockquote data-quote="havard" data-source="post: 5375811" data-attributes="member: 20941">I think you make a great summary of the situation Luce! A few comments: Good points. Personally I like playing multiple editions to experience all the different &quot;spices&quot;. I think the assumption that later editions are better is inherently wrong. On the one hand later editions do have the experience of the previous editions to build on, but the design goals for later editions might not be what all gamers want, especially if new editions are designed especially to attract new gamers (ie people who are not yet gamers). The good thing about the OSR is that people are re-examining the older editions to see what we might have missed of good ideas that were there from the beginning. This is very true. I am a setting guy more than a rules guy. I have been involved in alot of discussions trying to convert settings (Mystara in particular) to new editions. Flavour will change when you use a setting with an edition that it was not designed for. This is not neccessarily a bad thing of course, but still worth keeping in mind. I was a little disappointed by the way WotC has treated the old settings. One of the reasons why we set up <a href="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php" target="_blank">the Piazza</a> was to have a home for the old D&amp;D settings, independent of which would be officially supported by new editions. -Havard</blockquote>

[QUOTE="havard, post: 5375811, member: 20941"] I think you make a great summary of the situation Luce! A few comments: Good points. Personally I like playing multiple editions to experience all the different "spices". I think the assumption that later editions are better is inherently wrong. On the one hand later editions do have the experience of the previous editions to build on, but the design goals for later editions might not be what all gamers want, especially if new editions are designed especially to attract new gamers (ie people who are not yet gamers). The good thing about the OSR is that people are re-examining the older editions to see what we might have missed of good ideas that were there from the beginning. This is very true. I am a setting guy more than a rules guy. I have been involved in alot of discussions trying to convert settings (Mystara in particular) to new editions. Flavour will change when you use a setting with an edition that it was not designed for. This is not neccessarily a bad thing of course, but still worth keeping in mind. I was a little disappointed by the way WotC has treated the old settings. One of the reasons why we set up [URL="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php"]the Piazza[/URL] was to have a home for the old D&D settings, independent of which would be officially supported by new editions. -Havard [/QUOTE]

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