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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 4862799" data-attributes="member: 3820">Certainly, but let's always remember that if one is requesting some respect for the validity of one's choices, it helps to show some respect for the validity of other people's choices in that very same sentence. There are reasons to play a new game, or a new edition of any game, other than "fads," "fashions" or "cults." Sometimes a new game simply gives you a play experience you enjoy more, and it doesn't matter what the people outside your group think. That's the crux of why there are new games and new editions in the first place. If the original version of D&D was all things to all people, we wouldn't have had a wave of derivative fantasy games like Tunnels & Trolls or Palladium Fantasy or Arduin back in the day, much less roleplaying games that take place outside the pseudo-medieval fantasy format like Paranoia, Toon, Shadowrun, Vampire, etc. This is not a negative thing! It's like the influx of new restaurants into an area that give people more options about where to eat. Now, that can have some negative effects on a given group if, for instance, you'd be happy eating good old-fashioned comfort food every week at the same restaurant, and now your friends are more likely to want Chinese or Italian or sushi or Thai. But overall, it's good that more people get a chance to indulge in their favorite food because there are more choices out there.</blockquote>