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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 6860178" data-attributes="member: 59096">I'm going to answer the first quote in my response to Tony.I don't know about that Tony, there has been a lot of hostility in this thread. Hostility towards taking a 3E or 4E approach to playing 5E, and hostility towards any sort of criticism of 5E. Maybe not the level of hostility of the 4E edition wars, but comparable to the hostility during the 3E era amongst the 3E community IMO. As for my claim that 3E was the biggest tent for D&D, it dominated the RPG world more than any edition before or since. 5E exists alongside Pathfinder, 4E holdouts, and IMO more people playing AD&D/retroclones than during the 3E era, while in comparison 3E was the overwhelmingly dominant D&D. In comparison to previous editions, 3E dominated the wider RPG world to a greater extent than AD&D ever did. As for the rules themselves, they tried to be everything to everyone, and had some mixed success in that regard. People certainly used 3E for a wider range of play styles than anything before or since.Also, look at the online community, I was present for the online community during 3E's era, and it was a lot livelier than it is now. Enworld itself is a lot quieter now than I remember it back then.</blockquote>