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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9270864" data-attributes="member: 18">I gave an example of essentially the same thing happening in 5E, and I know people who bought 3E and 4E books without knowing anything about the game beyond that it was called D&amp;D and sounded cool.The entire concept of editions and so on is basically alien outside the TT RPG/wargame/boardgame space - and hell one of these people was a serious boardgame guy but it didn't even occur to him that he was buying a specific &quot;edition&quot; of D&amp;D.We cannot pretend that everyone or even most people know about editions, or will know about or understand the differences between the 2014 and 2024 versions of 5E.On top of that, the modern internet is far more full of misinformation, &quot;influencing&quot; and stuff which is essentially home-made propaganda than it was in say 2014 or 2004. Back then, accuracy was still valued (most of the time). Lies and propaganda were still called out and still bad to be caught in. Now? They're basically par for the course. Absolutely including about TT RPGs! The TT RPG community is full of this kind of nonsense, both from people boosting D&amp;D and people critiquing it. So I am skeptical about how likely it is you will get good information there - sure you may find a nice video outlining the differences between 2014 and 2024 D&amp;D, how to recognise the books, and how to decide which to get (which may be enough to scare you off getting either, of course), or you may just find an insane video dedicated to ranting about how great D&amp;D is and everyone should play it and how anyone who doesn't agree and wants to play other RPGs is basically a bigoted hate-monger (I have seen such a video lol, though I can't remember if it was YouTube).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9270864, member: 18"] I gave an example of essentially the same thing happening in 5E, and I know people who bought 3E and 4E books without knowing anything about the game beyond that it was called D&D and sounded cool. The entire concept of editions and so on is basically alien outside the TT RPG/wargame/boardgame space - and hell one of these people was a serious boardgame guy but it didn't even occur to him that he was buying a specific "edition" of D&D. We cannot pretend that everyone or even most people know about editions, or will know about or understand the differences between the 2014 and 2024 versions of 5E. On top of that, the modern internet is far more full of misinformation, "influencing" and stuff which is essentially home-made propaganda than it was in say 2014 or 2004. Back then, accuracy was still valued (most of the time). Lies and propaganda were still called out and still bad to be caught in. Now? They're basically par for the course. Absolutely including about TT RPGs! The TT RPG community is full of this kind of nonsense, both from people boosting D&D and people critiquing it. So I am skeptical about how likely it is you will get good information there - sure you may find a nice video outlining the differences between 2014 and 2024 D&D, how to recognise the books, and how to decide which to get (which may be enough to scare you off getting either, of course), or you may just find an insane video dedicated to ranting about how great D&D is and everyone should play it and how anyone who doesn't agree and wants to play other RPGs is basically a bigoted hate-monger (I have seen such a video lol, though I can't remember if it was YouTube). [/QUOTE]

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