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<blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 4120268" data-attributes="member: 2268">I think the &quot;State of Our Hobby&quot; is as strong as it hasn't been for quite some time, in parts thanks to D&amp;D 3E. There is one big brand that is extremely successful...and is wide open (thanks to OGL) to being kept alive through other publishers. There is a new edition, coming from the most successful publisher of the whole heap. There's a big wave of smaller, independent games testing new rules, new designs, being played or getting discarded. Fantasy as a whole has taken a big leap to the forefront of the general attention.In my opinion, trying to unite everybody under one brand (and one edition) would mean a terrible stifling of creativity, and a big loss for the next generation of games. &quot;One-Way-ism&quot; never was terribly correct for a species where one individual alone can hold so many contradicting truths in its mind. And to be honest, calling 4E &quot;our home&quot; is a little bit pretentious right from the start. 4E isn't the be all-end all of D&amp;D, same as 3E wasn't, and edition proliferation isn't the apocalypse that will destroy &quot;our hobby&quot;. It simply means that gamers will continue to be influenced by more than just one vision of what roleplaying games are, and that's the best thing imaginable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geron Raveneye, post: 4120268, member: 2268"] I think the "State of Our Hobby" is as strong as it hasn't been for quite some time, in parts thanks to D&D 3E. There is one big brand that is extremely successful...and is wide open (thanks to OGL) to being kept alive through other publishers. There is a new edition, coming from the most successful publisher of the whole heap. There's a big wave of smaller, independent games testing new rules, new designs, being played or getting discarded. Fantasy as a whole has taken a big leap to the forefront of the general attention. In my opinion, trying to unite everybody under one brand (and one edition) would mean a terrible stifling of creativity, and a big loss for the next generation of games. "One-Way-ism" never was terribly correct for a species where one individual alone can hold so many contradicting truths in its mind. And to be honest, calling 4E "our home" is a little bit pretentious right from the start. 4E isn't the be all-end all of D&D, same as 3E wasn't, and edition proliferation isn't the apocalypse that will destroy "our hobby". It simply means that gamers will continue to be influenced by more than just one vision of what roleplaying games are, and that's the best thing imaginable. [/QUOTE]

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