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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6806433" data-attributes="member: 996">lol.  5e dodged any kind of edition war, but there are still some pretty absurd criticisms put forth.  Of the MC system, for instance, or distorted views of DM Empowerment.  There's also some very pollyanna views of it that are just as unrealistic, and not particularly more of a service to the game.  1e was the version I really dug into, I technically started with Basic, but the middle-school crowd I was in didn't really grok it, and it wasn't until I started playing AD&D that I really got to see what the game was all about.  I love 1e for that reason.  But I don't kid myself that it wasn't a very primitive game that had improved little over the original, and went on to improve very little through the rest of the 20th century.  5e, to re-capture that feel that's so evocative and enjoyable for us, partakes of some of those primitive elements.  It's the 'best' edition since 1e at feeling like 1e.  It's even better at feeling like 2e.  That doesn't make it a mechanically superior game - it actually made it pretty hard for it to have been designed as well as it is - but it has helped make it a successful game, thanks to drawing in returning fans.  Exactly.  And 5e is very nearly as glorious without being quite so messy.</blockquote>