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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8219813" data-attributes="member: 3457">1e: it's AD&amp;D. That's why. It defined everything that made the game we love today.2e: expanded on it and streamlined it a great deal. Moved the game away from dungeon crawls and provided a broader narrative through the different settings, the only one of which I followed was Planescape with some FR supplements on occasion for a generic homebrew. Making it so thieves weren't all vanilla and customizable. Rangers too.3e: streamlined and a cohesive system. Made the Forgotten Realms cool, best art in any campaign setting, the trade dress on FR books was amazing and made them stand out like they hadn't before. I'd always been kind of bored by the Realms but the 3e version really made them cool.4e, never got to play it but I love the lore changes they made with Nentir Vale. Such a great setting that I wish they would put out again. It's ripe for development and with just one book models they use today it wouldn't be a big team thing. JUst some cool stuff and put it all in one place as opposed to across several sourcebooks with tidbits here and there.5e... brought the game back to a level where both sides of the screen are fun. Gave the DM back their power and bounded accuracy brought the game back down to original era power levels. Class design has been a lot more consistent, monsters are simple with enough complexity to be interesting. Orcs, Gnolls etc are no longer just the same stats with different artwork. Even the lore changes have been cool. You can make the game as simple or complex as needed with Feats, Minis, OA being optional rules. Basic D&amp;D being FREE. Unless 6e is just amazing or a slight revision I think 5e is the end of the road for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="teitan, post: 8219813, member: 3457"] 1e: it's AD&D. That's why. It defined everything that made the game we love today. 2e: expanded on it and streamlined it a great deal. Moved the game away from dungeon crawls and provided a broader narrative through the different settings, the only one of which I followed was Planescape with some FR supplements on occasion for a generic homebrew. Making it so thieves weren't all vanilla and customizable. Rangers too. 3e: streamlined and a cohesive system. Made the Forgotten Realms cool, best art in any campaign setting, the trade dress on FR books was amazing and made them stand out like they hadn't before. I'd always been kind of bored by the Realms but the 3e version really made them cool. 4e, never got to play it but I love the lore changes they made with Nentir Vale. Such a great setting that I wish they would put out again. It's ripe for development and with just one book models they use today it wouldn't be a big team thing. JUst some cool stuff and put it all in one place as opposed to across several sourcebooks with tidbits here and there. 5e... brought the game back to a level where both sides of the screen are fun. Gave the DM back their power and bounded accuracy brought the game back down to original era power levels. Class design has been a lot more consistent, monsters are simple with enough complexity to be interesting. Orcs, Gnolls etc are no longer just the same stats with different artwork. Even the lore changes have been cool. You can make the game as simple or complex as needed with Feats, Minis, OA being optional rules. Basic D&D being FREE. Unless 6e is just amazing or a slight revision I think 5e is the end of the road for me. [/QUOTE]

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