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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7146153" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Oh Grod, yes. The switch from 1e to 2e was a full-on edition war. It only died down to a degree when 3rd edition came out and was so radically different from 2nd edition that 1e and 2e started to look more similar than different. And even then it was more of a cease-fire than an end to the fighting about the editions.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that the marketing that TSR did at the time helped things much. Actually the marketing for 4th edition reminded me a bit of the "arrogance" of the articles in Dragon magazine touting the new edition over the older one. And more than a bit of the rancor about the new edition was probably wrapped up with how TSR booted Gygax from the company and how the company was being run in general at the time. But while the mechanical differences look slight now with 30 years of distance behind us (and 3 more editions to compare them too), at the time what we would now call "tweaks" to the game engine were hotly fought over at various tables and in the Forum of Dragon magazine (when TSR allowed those letters to be published, of course). And then later on Usenet (where it often got quite ugly).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7146153, member: 19857"] Oh Grod, yes. The switch from 1e to 2e was a full-on edition war. It only died down to a degree when 3rd edition came out and was so radically different from 2nd edition that 1e and 2e started to look more similar than different. And even then it was more of a cease-fire than an end to the fighting about the editions. I don't think that the marketing that TSR did at the time helped things much. Actually the marketing for 4th edition reminded me a bit of the "arrogance" of the articles in Dragon magazine touting the new edition over the older one. And more than a bit of the rancor about the new edition was probably wrapped up with how TSR booted Gygax from the company and how the company was being run in general at the time. But while the mechanical differences look slight now with 30 years of distance behind us (and 3 more editions to compare them too), at the time what we would now call "tweaks" to the game engine were hotly fought over at various tables and in the Forum of Dragon magazine (when TSR allowed those letters to be published, of course). And then later on Usenet (where it often got quite ugly). [/QUOTE]
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