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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8409366" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>No official source called Pathfinder 3.75e. That was a fanon term in order to emphasise that it was a further iteration on 3.5e, but it didn’t make any sense as it made it sound like it was a half step between 3.5e and 4.0e, when in reality these were two forks (to borrow from software development) off the game that took different lessons from 3.5e and catered to different audiences. Only D&D can use the edition terming because it’s specifically referring to the official published editions. So 3.5e was their half step off of 3e towards 4e. Pathfinder was not a half step again from 3.5e to 4e, it was a fork that preserved and iterated on elements that 4e threw to the wayside (while ignoring or de-emphasising other elements that arrived in 3.5e that were iterated on in 4e).</p><p></p><p>To this end, only 3rd Edition of D&D has ever used a decimal iteration system (beyond individual books, PDF’s, and reference documents having v1.1, V2.0 etc revisions). But nearly edition of D&D has had some sort of fully compatible revision halfway through its lifetime. One could even argue 2e began its life as this for 1e.</p><p></p><p>As this is not 3e, they will not use the decimal system unless they really want to revive it. But more to the point, whether this is a full step difference or a half step or a quarter step is really semantics and quibbling by pedants like you and me. All we know is that it’s a new printing of the core rules that will be fully compatible with 5e’s previous books but taking into account the decade of development and audience changes since the original publishing. This says that it’s an iterative change, not a full edition change (unless they’re considering it 6e in the same sense that 2e was compatible with 1e products). But whether that change is as marginal as 3.5e to Pathfinder or as substantive as 3e to 3.5e really is an argument we have no way of judging at this point nor could we agree on what is a .5 edition change versus what is a .25 or .75 edition change.</p><p></p><p>It’s just not fruitful to the discussion, methinks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8409366, member: 6803643"] No official source called Pathfinder 3.75e. That was a fanon term in order to emphasise that it was a further iteration on 3.5e, but it didn’t make any sense as it made it sound like it was a half step between 3.5e and 4.0e, when in reality these were two forks (to borrow from software development) off the game that took different lessons from 3.5e and catered to different audiences. Only D&D can use the edition terming because it’s specifically referring to the official published editions. So 3.5e was their half step off of 3e towards 4e. Pathfinder was not a half step again from 3.5e to 4e, it was a fork that preserved and iterated on elements that 4e threw to the wayside (while ignoring or de-emphasising other elements that arrived in 3.5e that were iterated on in 4e). To this end, only 3rd Edition of D&D has ever used a decimal iteration system (beyond individual books, PDF’s, and reference documents having v1.1, V2.0 etc revisions). But nearly edition of D&D has had some sort of fully compatible revision halfway through its lifetime. One could even argue 2e began its life as this for 1e. As this is not 3e, they will not use the decimal system unless they really want to revive it. But more to the point, whether this is a full step difference or a half step or a quarter step is really semantics and quibbling by pedants like you and me. All we know is that it’s a new printing of the core rules that will be fully compatible with 5e’s previous books but taking into account the decade of development and audience changes since the original publishing. This says that it’s an iterative change, not a full edition change (unless they’re considering it 6e in the same sense that 2e was compatible with 1e products). But whether that change is as marginal as 3.5e to Pathfinder or as substantive as 3e to 3.5e really is an argument we have no way of judging at this point nor could we agree on what is a .5 edition change versus what is a .25 or .75 edition change. It’s just not fruitful to the discussion, methinks. [/QUOTE]
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