A Technical Analysis of D&D

0. Gary Gygax discovers it’s funny if you make players care if their individual soldiers die.
1. Incoherent wargaming with units instead of armies.
2. Demonstrably the best edition. That it was the first I learned is unrelated happenstance.
3. Rules lawyering spreadsheet masturbation fodder.
3.5. Runaway prestige class hyperinflation.
4. World of Warcraft.
5. 2e, but lame.
5.5. Pap for babies who want to play purple-skinned anime furries.

To any 5th edition fan who disagrees with me: in twenty years you’ll be saying the same thing about 8th edition players.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.