We are adventurers.

We've been to every place anywhere in the world.

We are adventuring.

We are adventurers.

Hello heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot. I'm James Damato, your game master.

Today we're continuing our anniversary adventure with the Crazy Partiers,

but first I want to share some of my thoughts on the fifth edition system as I didn't get a chance to do that in the earlier episodes.

Role playing has been on an interesting journey over the past couple decades.

We've advanced a long way since first edition and second edition.

Role playing is about more than just war gaming these days.

Of the two creators of Dungeons and Dragons, I'd say originally role-playing was squarely in Gary Gyagax's court.

Gary had the mathematical mind to create chain mail and the diligence to write everything down.

However, on the other side of D&D, Dave Arneson brought wild imagination to the game.

Arneson's Blackmore, from what I can tell from these stories as I was not there or even alive at the time that he was running Dungeons and Dragons

was much more reminiscent of the story games we have these days.

First and second edition D&D created those story gaming experiences by accident. 3.0 and 3.5 took things further by allowing players to stat everything.

There's a role for pretty much every conceivable action in all the expansions of 3.5.

3.5 struck a chord and went on to become the most popular role-playing system of all time.

Looking to expand their markets to the ultra competitive MMO crowd, Wizards decided to make fourth edition something that has a more tactical focus while streamlining the rules to make play faster and simpler.

The fine folks over at Pathfinder took a look at 3.5 and decided while the system had some flaws,

there was a lot of great material there that shouldn't be thrown away in a new edition.

While I don't want to throw shade on any of my fourth edition listeners, it looks like

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