Quote Originally Posted by Telok View Post
Newer systems probably are. New versions of old systems tend to bring along piles of baggage and may or may not keep what made the old systems good.
That might be true. Actually the most common favourite edition* seems to be second. You can make improvements but it seems hard to do that for long without shifting the game's focus or losing sight of what the game was about.

(save perhaps 4e D&D which was good at it's style of combat and didn't seem to really do anything else)
I've said it before and I will say it again: 4th is the best designed edition of D&D. They were just designing something most people didn't want.

* Although considering the sub-forum we are on that is probably biasing things somewhat.