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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6394035" data-attributes="member: 59082">[MENTION=5100]Mercule[/MENTION], I agree that with 5E we see a bit of a "course correction" from the more non-traditional 4E. Nothing wrong with 4E, but it certainly did "zig" away, and 5E "zagged" back. I've said this before but I think 4E might have been better received as a variant d20 game, and then they could have gone even more gonzo with it.I would have really liked to see 4E Revised. In fact, around 2010 I was hoping that they would errata, revise, and combine PHB 1 and PHB 2 into a revised mega-PHB. But instead we got Essentials and I knew 4E had jumped the shark.A question. Let's say WotC comes out with a PHB in a few years, say 2017 or 2018, that includes errata, rules clarifications, maybe a few added bits and pieces, an improved class or two, some new art, new cover, etc. But everything is still perfectly compatible - the 2014 PHB still works fine, and so on. Would you consider that a new edition? Would it bother you that it came out? Oh yeah, I also agree that tabletop RPGs are really a product of the dead-tree era, and will likely remain so. But I don't think books are going away, at least not in the 21st century. I mean, we'll likely see more and more ebooks, but books aren't eight-tracks or cassettes, they're more like violins or guitars - they are classic human artifacts that really can't be adequately replaced by superior technology, or rather there are irreducible qualities to a book--the whole tactile experience, browsing, the bookshelf--that simply can't be captured by a PDF. This is why when I look at my collection, I don't see my PDFs as "real" products or games that I own. I see them more as occasional reference documents. But I greatly dislike reading extensively from them.</blockquote>

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