Thing that irritates me about edition rebooting...

[Evenglare]

Now I get to wait a year or more after release for them to give me the same stuff that I already had. Now I know the typical responses I will get "you dont have to play it" or "no one is going to burn your books". That aside it's just really annoying to basically start over ... AGAIN.

I also have this issue with consoles. People get tired of not being able to play their older stuff. Consoles simply must have backwards compatibility in the future, I feel this way about the new edition as well...

 

[Ahnehnois]

Try playing tennis. It's not like they come up with a new racket technology every few years.

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I hear what you're saying, but c'est la vie.

 

[Stormonu]

I hear ya. Back when 2E debuted, as a DM I didn't feel like I had the whole system until about the MC 3 came out. In 3E, I desperately awaited the MM 2 to reunite with some of my favorite monsters.

Come 4E, I didn't wait. I made up my own stuff to replace the stuff that didn't come out with the release. It was hard work, but it was fun. Felt like I learned a lot about the system's guts during that time as well.

So, my suggestion is one of two things: wait to buy into the new edition until they've released enough that you feel you've got "everything you had." I mean, you still have your previous edition to play with, it's not like the WotC ninjas are going to come take it from you.

Or, make up the missing stuff yourself. Who knows, you may find you like your own spin better than the "official" stuff. And you don't have to wait as long (usually).

 

[the Jester]

You know what annoys me with edition changes (sometimes)?

Discarded continuity.

Some of us have been running the same campaign for 20+ years and use some of those discarded bits as major building blocks, you know!