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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3919889" data-attributes="member: 18280">Sorry, but I don't see this as a natural evolution of games.&nbsp; I wouldn't even agree that 3e is played more than 1e, for that matter.&nbsp; Again, this isn't very Darwinian of you.&nbsp; &quot;More popular&quot; =/= fitter.&nbsp; In a Darwinian sense, you can't know what is &quot;fitter&quot; between A and B until either A or B die an ignonimous death.&nbsp; And, even then, you can only talk about them being fitter within a given context.&nbsp; Overall &quot;fitness&quot; has not defining characteristics, and can be related as much to luck as to any intrinsic value.Ever hear of tonsils?&nbsp; The appendix?BTW, wouldn't that make gnomes automatically fitter than Dragonborn and Tieflings at this juncture?I could go on, but it seems that you are trying to tie ideas of natural selection into a model which is based on anything but &quot;natural&quot; selection, and it seems to me that some of your ideas about the Darwinian model are questionable as well.I suggest we agree to disagree on this one.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3919889, member: 18280"] Sorry, but I don't see this as a natural evolution of games. I wouldn't even agree that 3e is played more than 1e, for that matter. Again, this isn't very Darwinian of you. "More popular" =/= fitter. In a Darwinian sense, you can't know what is "fitter" between A and B until either A or B die an ignonimous death. And, even then, you can only talk about them being fitter within a given context. Overall "fitness" has not defining characteristics, and can be related as much to luck as to any intrinsic value. Ever hear of tonsils? The appendix? BTW, wouldn't that make gnomes [i]automatically[/i] fitter than Dragonborn and Tieflings at this juncture? I could go on, but it seems that you are trying to tie ideas of natural selection into a model which is based on anything but "natural" selection, and it seems to me that some of your ideas about the Darwinian model are questionable as well. I suggest we agree to disagree on this one. ;) RC [/QUOTE]

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