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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GoodKingJayIII" data-source="post: 4121478" data-attributes="member: 13804">That'd be ideal, but it's also not very reasonable, for a few reasons.Not that I'm disagreeing with you, per se; I think it'd be great if we were all unified by one solid edition.  But I think the nature of the game demands change.I mean, look at guys like Monte Cook who love to tinker with the rules.  Those are people creating these RPGs.  So they're never going to be 100% satisfied with what's out there.  Eventually they'll start tinkering until we find ourselves in the position we're in now, with a new edition on the rise.And let's face it, another reason we have so many editions is because each edition is filled with nonsense rules that can muck things up.  They had 'em in 1st edition, they have 'em in 3.5, and they'll have 'em in 4e.  It's a guarantee.  And eventually folks come along and say, "you know, someone should really fix these."Plus, I think it's actually bad for an industry to be stagnant.  It's not financially tenable, true, but change can be a good thing, so long as things are forward moving (which is so nebulous a term that one might argue that any change could be considered "forward moving," but I don't think that's the case).Those are just my feelings.  I suspect that eventually I will convert fully to 4e, but as I said in an email earlier today, I still like 3.5 and have enough material to last me a very long time.  So, I'm flexible.</blockquote>

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