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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9261286" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>Yep, you'll have to blame Wikipedia for that. But the thing is, <em>all numbers </em>are going to seem a little off, because:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are conflicting dates from different websites, and that's not even the half of it. Some sources round up or down to the nearest whole year; some break it down into fractions of years, or months, or quarters.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Also, some websites only report the core rulebooks, others include all "official" products in the line (whatever that means at the time), others include magazine articles and 3PP products.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some product lines ran concurrently, even within the same category: for years, Basic and AD&D were being published side-by-side, and even Mentzer's and Allston's versions were being published side-by-side despite them both being the same "edition."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some had multiple print runs, others had only one. Anniversary editions, collector editions, and the like were sometimes printed decades after the originals went out of print.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And as you noted, there were long gaps of time where no products were being published at all.</li> </ul><p>TL;DR: the history of D&D is a hot mess, but I did the best I could with my lunch break and the tools I had on hand (Wikipedia and Excel).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 9261286, member: 50987"] Yep, you'll have to blame Wikipedia for that. But the thing is, [I]all numbers [/I]are going to seem a little off, because: [LIST] [*]There are conflicting dates from different websites, and that's not even the half of it. Some sources round up or down to the nearest whole year; some break it down into fractions of years, or months, or quarters. [*]Also, some websites only report the core rulebooks, others include all "official" products in the line (whatever that means at the time), others include magazine articles and 3PP products. [*]Some product lines ran concurrently, even within the same category: for years, Basic and AD&D were being published side-by-side, and even Mentzer's and Allston's versions were being published side-by-side despite them both being the same "edition." [*]Some had multiple print runs, others had only one. Anniversary editions, collector editions, and the like were sometimes printed decades after the originals went out of print. [*]And as you noted, there were long gaps of time where no products were being published at all. [/LIST] TL;DR: the history of D&D is a hot mess, but I did the best I could with my lunch break and the tools I had on hand (Wikipedia and Excel). [/QUOTE]
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