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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5695427" data-attributes="member: 2011">Meh. Semantics. There was additional source material added between '74 and '77 like the blue book. And the parallel line was merely a watered down version of the more advanced game.If you want to nitpick minor additional optional sourcebooks as new versions, I cannot stop you. But, it is the flaw in your argument. They do not equate to a release of a full blown version.I don't consider Essentials to be a revamp, but I do consider 3.5 to be a partial one since it had so many changes.In reality, there is original, AD&amp;D, 2E, 3E, 3.5, and 4E. When these versions came out, edition support for earlier releases diminished. Those other optional rules and boxed sets that you mention did not remove edition support from TSR/WotC for the main editions, so they are white noise.People could still play the core edition and still find support and new product out for it until the next version came out. People didn't really complain when 2E or 3E came out, but 3.5 and 4E came out so quickly after earlier editions that many people did complain because earlier edition support dried up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5695427, member: 2011"] Meh. Semantics. There was additional source material added between '74 and '77 like the blue book. And the parallel line was merely a watered down version of the more advanced game. If you want to nitpick minor additional optional sourcebooks as new versions, I cannot stop you. But, it is the flaw in your argument. They do not equate to a release of a full blown version. I don't consider Essentials to be a revamp, but I do consider 3.5 to be a partial one since it had so many changes. In reality, there is original, AD&D, 2E, 3E, 3.5, and 4E. When these versions came out, edition support for earlier releases diminished. Those other optional rules and boxed sets that you mention did not remove edition support from TSR/WotC for the main editions, so they are white noise. People could still play the core edition and still find support and new product out for it until the next version came out. People didn't really complain when 2E or 3E came out, but 3.5 and 4E came out so quickly after earlier editions that many people did complain because earlier edition support dried up. [/QUOTE]

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