Reply To: [unofficial weekender] my edition is better than yours

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As predicted my plans to do anything productive got scuppered, because carnaval happened and that is an event I simply don’t want to miss out on.

First up was the saturday even, where they also introduced the not-bride and not-groom who will have a fake farmers’ wedding on tuesday. This is always done by an entire neighbourhood or a big club and is quite an event.

Fun fact : the neighbourhood is Moluccan in origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moluccans

It’s all kinds of awesome when the entire audience sings with the artists on stage.

Today (sunday) was one of the many parades.

New editions better ?

I’d say usually they are *if* they are done for the right reasons and the writers have the balls to do what is needed to fix things.

AD&D 2nd to 3rd edition did fix one of my major issues with the game : the inconsistent dice rolling. The feats system was a good idea, but in hindsight they went a bit over the top with it and it became a mess.

Flames of War 4th edition … definitely another good upgrade. Removing the overly complicated nation specific special rules was a good thing as was the introduction of unit cards with the upgrades factored into the stat lines.

8th edition 40k *was* a good idea … but GW forgot that they either needed to kill factions or change to a D8 or D10 based system (or maybe even multiple dice types) to really allow factions and units to shine without having to add a ton of special rules to them.

Kings of War / Deadzone / Firefight … I’ll just say that Mantic has shown that they know how to fix things and they do it in the most customer friendly manner possible.