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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 5770507" data-attributes="member: 924">I think it needs to bring long term stability to the core rules. 1st Edition basically lasted 12 years, and 2nd another what 11?And there wasn't a huge amount of different between the rulesets. If you knew how to play one, you could play the other with minimal effort - some differences in class & monster stats, but nothing major.Then 3.x lasted 9 (split between two editions) and 4e apparently will last 5.Beyond that, the two editions are virtually completely incompatible with each other and previous systems. TSR's model for D&D might have failed eventually, but how much was it their other mistakes? Buck Rogers, all the awful novels (okay some of those sold well, but many didn't), Dragon Dice, not to mention the terrible product quality (yet full of expensive stuff, like box sets and cardboard inserts)Paizo seems to be following a more intelligent version of what TSR did. Can that scale up to Hasbro? Maybe not.  But I think what they tried with 3e and 4e didn't work any better.</blockquote>