Top 10 Reasons Why I Just Don't Care

[Kzach]

1. I'm over it. Really.
2. Your edition is not better than my edition.
3. I don't need to be reminded that you hate 4e every single day.
4. Diaglo.
5. Edition is irrelevant.
6. I like 4e no matter what you say.
7. Gnomes suck.
8. I like video games.
9. D&D is what I say it is.
10. Mike Mearls told me to.

 

[avin]

10. Mike Mearls told me to.

I knew there was something strange on that poll...

 

[jdrakeh]

1. I'm over it. Really.
2. Your edition is not better than my edition.
3. I don't need to be reminded that you hate 4e every single day.
4. Diaglo.
5. Edition is irrelevant.
6. I like 4e no matter what you say.
7. Gnomes suck.
8. I like video games.
9. D&D is what I say it is.
10. Mike Mearls told me to.

"You must spread some Experience Points around before giving it to Kzach again."

 

[moritheil]

Oh hey look, it's another edition wars thread.

 

[jdrakeh]

Oh hey look, it's another edition wars thread.

Maybe — but this is only a satricial parody posted in response to the "10 reasons AD&D is more fun than all other editions of D&D!" thread already in existence.

 

[Nikosandros]

5. Edition is irrelevant.

Edition (or game system for that matter) is not irrelevant... but getting bent out of shape about what other people like or dislike is utterly absurd.

I don't like seafood. At all. Sometimes, the smell of seafood makes me a bit queasy. Should I be upset at the billions of people who like seafood? Should someone be mad at me because I don't like seafood?

An absurd example, to be sure... and yet that's what basically happens with edition wars (or game system wars, or Operating System wars, etc...).

 

[jdrakeh]

An absurd example, to be sure... and yet that's what basically happens with edition wars (or game system wars, or Operating System wars, etc...).

Not really. . . with edition wars, you typically have a small group of people who come to a forum that is ostensibly dedicated to an edition of X game that they hate, then post about the superiority of their preferred edition ad nauseum.

To use your example, it would be as if all of those people who like seafood kicked in the front door to your house, burst in, and screamed at you about the obvious superiority of seafood until they were blue in the face.

"You don't agree that shellfish is the superior food? Well, you're a moron!"

 

[Khairn]

Not really. . . with edition wars, you typically have a small group of people who come to a forum that is ostensibly dedicated to an edition of X game that they hate, then post about the superiority of their preferred edition ad nauseum.

Which is why its a good thing that both the AD&D thread and this one are in the general section of EN World where such opinions are welcome. Course in my world RMSS tops them all, so it really doesn't matter what D&D edition you like best.

As for the list ...

5. Edition is irrelevant.

... is my favorite. Ultimately its not the edition that matters. What matters is that something gets you interested enough to gather around with some friends and have a blast pwning some mobs and taking their stuff.

But then again, Mearls's mastery of mind control is impressive.

 

[jdrakeh]

Which is why its a good thing that both the AD&D thread and this one are in the general section of EN World where such opinions are welcome.

Opinions are always welcome though, on the flip side of that coin, I'm pretty certain that deliberate trolling (which is what attempts to incite 'edition wars' by making pronunciations of superiority/inferiority amount to) have always been frowned upon.

 

[Reynard]

Not really. . . with edition wars, you typically have a small group of people who come to a forum that is ostensibly dedicated to an edition of X game that they hate, then post about the superiority of their preferred edition ad nauseum.

I think you're making a few presumptions that aren't accurate. 1) EN World is a "4E" forum. 2) Extolling the virtues of any given edition is automatically an attack on another edition and/or the fans of that edition. 3) Preference of one edition = "hate" of another edition. 4) The sole intent of discussing any given edition is to inspire an edition war.

All of these are false.

What might be more interesting and more conducive to an engaging and lively discussion than a snarky, thinly veiled attack like the OP would be a "Top Ten Reasons Why [x]E is More Fun."