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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5989442" data-attributes="member: 7006">Is it too much to think that the reason a new edition gets released every four or five years or so is because enough players don't give a rat's ass about any one edition, and instead just buy the new game (and supplements) in enough bulk to keep the doors to the D&amp;D department open for the next four or five years?Many of us couldn't care less about which edition is the &quot;true&quot; edition, or which one plays better than another, or whether or not a whole heap of you move on to the new edition or remain stuck in whatever edition you're currently playing.&nbsp; And I imagine that to certain extent WotC feels the same way.It's YOU who sometimes get a stick up your rear end about worrying which game(s) is &quot;selling better&quot; or which one is available so that you can introduce your friends to it, or which one is &quot;splintering the D&amp;D community&quot; or every other hackneyed cliche that gets thrown out there all in an attempt to make it seem like YOUR way of playing D&amp;D is the &quot;real&quot; way to play D&amp;D, and that WotC should be catering to you and your almighty dollar.But guess what?&nbsp; There's apparently enough of the rest of us out here who will just buy new books every couple years because gosh-darned it... buying new roleplaying game books every couple of years is fun.&nbsp; And in many ways it's US who WotC is really catering to, when you get right down to it, because we might very well be in the majority.&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=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5989442, member: 7006"] Is it too much to think that the reason a new edition gets released every four or five years or so is because enough players don't give a rat's ass about any one edition, and instead just buy the new game (and supplements) in enough bulk to keep the doors to the D&D department open for the next four or five years? Many of us couldn't care less about which edition is the "true" edition, or which one plays better than another, or whether or not a whole heap of you move on to the new edition or remain stuck in whatever edition you're currently playing. And I imagine that to certain extent WotC feels the same way. It's YOU who sometimes get a stick up your rear end about worrying which game(s) is "selling better" or which one is available so that you can introduce your friends to it, or which one is "splintering the D&D community" or every other hackneyed cliche that gets thrown out there all in an attempt to make it seem like YOUR way of playing D&D is the "real" way to play D&D, and that WotC should be catering to you and your almighty dollar. But guess what? There's apparently enough of the rest of us out here who will just buy new books every couple years because gosh-darned it... buying new roleplaying game books every couple of years is fun. And in many ways it's US who WotC is really catering to, when you get right down to it, because we might very well be in the majority. ;) [/QUOTE]

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