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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8751884" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>This meaning 4E Essentials or One D&D?</p><p></p><p>I think it's entirely helpful to characterize the latter as an edition, and frankly the OP's argument, which really <em>exactly</em> the same kind of thing he's criticising from "smug Youtubers", falls extremely flat. It's unhelpful of WotC to have failed to have addressed their previous usage of the term, or be honest about it, and make an honest comparison (like 1E to 2E).</p><p></p><p>There's absolutely nothing weird about AD&D and D&D back in the day. That's perfectly normal. That's how most RPGs operate to this day - if you change the rules fundamentally, like more than 1E to 2E, you probably rename the game. If you look at oWoD games, you see that 1E and 2E are just not that different and semi-compatible. Revised had a different name than 3E to indicate it was "more differenter". 20th Anniversary could honestly be called 3E though (particularly as it largely ignored/reverted Revised stuff in favour of deriving more naturally from 2E). I believe the current edition refers to itself as 5th edition and that is a bit misleading, because it's a fundamental break, but that's a whole other discussion and more to do with marketing than being helpful.</p><p></p><p>When WW wanted to make a bigger break, they created the nWoD and Vampire: The Requiem and so on. The nWoD even got a 2nd edition, which is kind of an overlooked masterpiece in many ways (and had some truly great campaigns), but I digress.</p><p></p><p>Sorta?</p><p></p><p>What 4E did was continually errata update everything, tweaking stuff, and made sure those errata were extremely accessible online (via PDFs etc.), and whatever they were doing, they got implemented <em>really</em> quickly on the DDI (the digital version of the game, which was sub-based automatically had all published mechanical content), like in days if not virtually immediately.</p><p></p><p>But the important thing is there was no "big errata drop" with 4E. It wasn't like they held stuff back, then dropped a ton of changes. They just gradually made changes, of varying sizes, over the edition. Nothing about Essentials required any of those changes, that I'm aware. If you're thinking they laid the groundwork for Essentials then dropped it with changes, that didn't happen, to be clear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8751884, member: 18"] This meaning 4E Essentials or One D&D? I think it's entirely helpful to characterize the latter as an edition, and frankly the OP's argument, which really [I]exactly[/I] the same kind of thing he's criticising from "smug Youtubers", falls extremely flat. It's unhelpful of WotC to have failed to have addressed their previous usage of the term, or be honest about it, and make an honest comparison (like 1E to 2E). There's absolutely nothing weird about AD&D and D&D back in the day. That's perfectly normal. That's how most RPGs operate to this day - if you change the rules fundamentally, like more than 1E to 2E, you probably rename the game. If you look at oWoD games, you see that 1E and 2E are just not that different and semi-compatible. Revised had a different name than 3E to indicate it was "more differenter". 20th Anniversary could honestly be called 3E though (particularly as it largely ignored/reverted Revised stuff in favour of deriving more naturally from 2E). I believe the current edition refers to itself as 5th edition and that is a bit misleading, because it's a fundamental break, but that's a whole other discussion and more to do with marketing than being helpful. When WW wanted to make a bigger break, they created the nWoD and Vampire: The Requiem and so on. The nWoD even got a 2nd edition, which is kind of an overlooked masterpiece in many ways (and had some truly great campaigns), but I digress. Sorta? What 4E did was continually errata update everything, tweaking stuff, and made sure those errata were extremely accessible online (via PDFs etc.), and whatever they were doing, they got implemented [I]really[/I] quickly on the DDI (the digital version of the game, which was sub-based automatically had all published mechanical content), like in days if not virtually immediately. But the important thing is there was no "big errata drop" with 4E. It wasn't like they held stuff back, then dropped a ton of changes. They just gradually made changes, of varying sizes, over the edition. Nothing about Essentials required any of those changes, that I'm aware. If you're thinking they laid the groundwork for Essentials then dropped it with changes, that didn't happen, to be clear. [/QUOTE]
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