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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8319276" data-attributes="member: 20564">As a side note, my answer for this differs a lot for D&amp;D.In general, as the state of the industry moves forward, mechanics and such becomes more mature.&nbsp; There's more feedback, especially the past decade or two with the internet.&nbsp; So games generally improve.&nbsp; And I'm for that.&nbsp; But also, many general games don't have a huge amount of supporting material, so there's no heavy sunk investment.This doesn't mean I'll always move forward - let's look at Hero System.&nbsp; I started back in 2nd ed days, and we gladly move to the BBB (Big Blue Book) and it was great.&nbsp; Even with the amount of small books left behind that eventually were rebought.&nbsp; I didn't play too much of later editions, and in 2019 we had a game that was going to run in the latest 6th ed - and I found that all I didn't like the system.&nbsp; Even the nostaligia was gone with changes like renaming powers and removing figured characteristics.&nbsp; If I run Champions again, it will likely be with an older edition.&nbsp; And this doesn't even talk about Fuzion, which was a radical departure.I've upgraded through various version of Shadowrun, but I'm not particularly fond of the newest (6th).D&amp;D is in a differnet place.&nbsp; I greatly enjoy 5e and it's my favorite edition, but it's not my favorite D&amp;D-like game.&nbsp; But what it has going for it is a huge player base.&nbsp; Be it ease of finding players, having active online communities, whatever.Even though I ran 3.5 for years into 4e (completeing a 7 year campaign), I still played 4e and read the message boards.&nbsp; One of the strongest points of D&amp;D is the immense coverage it has in the high fantasy RPG sector, and you sort of have to at least eventually change to a new edition to keep up with that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8319276, member: 20564"] As a side note, my answer for this differs a lot for D&D. In general, as the state of the industry moves forward, mechanics and such becomes more mature. There's more feedback, especially the past decade or two with the internet. So games generally improve. And I'm for that. But also, many general games don't have a huge amount of supporting material, so there's no heavy sunk investment. This doesn't mean I'll always move forward - let's look at Hero System. I started back in 2nd ed days, and we gladly move to the BBB (Big Blue Book) and it was great. Even with the amount of small books left behind that eventually were rebought. I didn't play too much of later editions, and in 2019 we had a game that was going to run in the latest 6th ed - and I found that all I didn't like the system. Even the nostaligia was gone with changes like renaming powers and removing figured characteristics. If I run Champions again, it will likely be with an older edition. And this doesn't even talk about Fuzion, which was a radical departure. I've upgraded through various version of Shadowrun, but I'm not particularly fond of the newest (6th). D&D is in a differnet place. I greatly enjoy 5e and it's my favorite edition, but it's not my favorite D&D-like game. But what it has going for it is a huge player base. Be it ease of finding players, having active online communities, whatever. Even though I ran 3.5 for years into 4e (completeing a 7 year campaign), I still played 4e and read the message boards. One of the strongest points of D&D is the immense coverage it has in the high fantasy RPG sector, and you sort of have to at least eventually change to a new edition to keep up with that. [/QUOTE]

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