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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8990212" data-attributes="member: 29398">In order of importance, I'd say it was d first, then a, then big drop to b and c.One major change you missed was the presentation, at least in the initial core three books.  Bigger typeface, simplified writing, bland artwork; all contributed to the sense of it having been considerably dumbed down.These were, and remain to this day, my primary annoyance with 2e.And with the 5e to 5.5e change I see some of the same type of things happening again.Oddly enough, this was one way in which 2e largely didn't bother us at all, in that quite a few of its changes were simply catching up to changes we'd already homebrewed in.  Other changes were things we'd already considered and tossed, while others e.g. the dumbing-down and the sanitization were flat-out non-starters for us.</blockquote>