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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9262154" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>More pie! Because pie is delicious!</p><p></p><p>I've been playing D&D regularly since 1986...and here's how those years all break down, edition-wise.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Basic:</strong> Twelve and a half years. Mostly with Mentzer's BECMI boxed sets; I played a couple of the Moldvay's B/X modules (including the best adventure ever written for any edition, <em>X1: The Isle of Dread.</em>) I was forced to switch to the Rules Cyclopedia in the 90s, because TS&R took the Companion Rules out of print and I wanted to run <em>CM1: Test of the Warlords. </em>And I still run the occasional BECM game over Roll20, also with my old friends from middle school.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AD&D 2E: </strong>Three months. I joined a friend's AD&D campaign one summer in the early 90s, and didn't particularly enjoy it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>3E/3.5E: </strong>the edition I've played the most, at 14 years. I started playing in 2000 the same year that 3E was released, then switched to 3.5E the same year it came out as well. When 4E was announced, we ran a few playtests and one-shots but we ended up staying with 3.5E or Pathfinder until 2013.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>4E: </strong> About six weeks, in total. I ran a few playtests with my gaming group, and when the final version was released I ran a single one-shot adventure.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>5E: </strong> Eleven years and counting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's also about ten years of gaps where I didn't play D&D at all. I was either working out of state or out of the country, studying at university, looking for a new group, that sort of thing,</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]345774[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 9262154, member: 50987"] More pie! Because pie is delicious! I've been playing D&D regularly since 1986...and here's how those years all break down, edition-wise. [LIST] [*][B]Basic:[/B] Twelve and a half years. Mostly with Mentzer's BECMI boxed sets; I played a couple of the Moldvay's B/X modules (including the best adventure ever written for any edition, [I]X1: The Isle of Dread.[/I]) I was forced to switch to the Rules Cyclopedia in the 90s, because TS&R took the Companion Rules out of print and I wanted to run [I]CM1: Test of the Warlords. [/I]And I still run the occasional BECM game over Roll20, also with my old friends from middle school. [*][B]AD&D 2E: [/B]Three months. I joined a friend's AD&D campaign one summer in the early 90s, and didn't particularly enjoy it. [*][B]3E/3.5E: [/B]the edition I've played the most, at 14 years. I started playing in 2000 the same year that 3E was released, then switched to 3.5E the same year it came out as well. When 4E was announced, we ran a few playtests and one-shots but we ended up staying with 3.5E or Pathfinder until 2013. [*][B]4E: [/B] About six weeks, in total. I ran a few playtests with my gaming group, and when the final version was released I ran a single one-shot adventure. [*][B]5E: [/B] Eleven years and counting. [*]There's also about ten years of gaps where I didn't play D&D at all. I was either working out of state or out of the country, studying at university, looking for a new group, that sort of thing, [/LIST] [ATTACH type="full" width="525px" alt="1707641638147.png"]345774[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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