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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Authweight" data-source="post: 6396456" data-attributes="member: 6693417">I have to admit being torn. In 4e, I really enjoyed following the changes as they went. 4e was the closest to a "living" edition we ever had. With the DDI online character builder, it was easy to tell a new player to hop on my laptop and make a character, and I didn't have to worry about it. Of course, the constant changes quickly made the physical books basically useless, but for me that wasn't a dealbreaker, since I used the online toold for everything anyway.However, 5e is trying to be something really different, and it makes sense as a dead-tree product. D&D 5e is supposed to the definitive expression of traditional D&D. It's not supposed to live, it's more of a solid, simple but effective starting point for regular old dungeon crawling fun.The truth is, what I wish they had done was release what we have now as a playtest, so all the issues that keep popping up could be fixed without invalidating everyone's purchases. If they really want an edition to be definitive, it needs to be completely opened up to the community for a long time before being finalized. Anything less will produce errors, as seen in every edition of d&d. I would rather patch errors than leave them untouched, but better yet would be to avoid errors in the first place.</blockquote>