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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 3265320" data-attributes="member: 6616">It would be the current edition of D&D.Why? Because it says so on the book. The brand is what identifies the current edition of the game. Instead of making up new names for it, I could imagine myself saying "the current edition of D&D is not for me, since it deviates from rules I find fun playing with. Older editions of D&D had more fun rules."The SJG version might be a dead end, something that is bad for the brand and that will be discarded by later generations, like Paranoia "5th edition".<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />However, if the changes SJG would make to the game would keep it commercially viable, I would be all for it. A strong current edition of D&D is good.I just can't see the need for or understand the necessity to go around calling the current edition of D&D something else just to express some kind of displeasure about the game.As an example, chess as we know it isn't the chess that people played in 'dem olde times. The game has changed numerous times, and there are variant to chess. The current codification of chess is relatively recent compared to the longevity of the game. Yet we call it chess.D&D is in a state of evolving. There will be many changes to the rules before a codified game will emerge as a "stable" D&D that will be played the same way for hundreds of years. Maybe it will never happen. But I think that D&D will evolve and change, just like chess has done. And it will still be D&D./M</blockquote>

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