D & D Played Versions: 3.x or 4E

[gamerprinter]

Several hundred responses later, if ENworld internet polls are to be believed 67% of ENworlders play 'exclusive 4e', and 17% play 3.x.

Interesting.

Not so interesting when you realize those numbers are a 'sham'. As mentioned non-public polls are destined to manipulation, and this poll has been 'way manipulated to meaningless crap'. I wouldn't be surprised to see more 4e numbers than 3x, but to the extreme as the poll indicates? No way.

I had been in a three year 3x campaign, which ran past 4e's start by a year, then when Pathfinder came out, our play group went that way 100%. One of our members bought some of the first 4e books and we did check them out, even play-testing in a one-shot, but naw, not for us.

And besides the only people I know that play 4e is on any of these forums, our LGS is dedicated to MtG and little in the way of RPGs. I know about 50 people locally playing either 3x or Pathfinder, though mostly 3x - I don't know any that play 4e (though I'm sure they're out there...)

 

[LostSoul]

I voted 4E only, since the last 3.5 game I consistently played in ended in January 2006, I think - I know I started playing Burning Wheel in February, but I'm not sure if I was doing both at the same time. I might be off by a month or two.

 

[Maggan]

How do you know people are stuffing the ballot box?

Well, we don't know for sure. But a surge for one side is a pretty good indicator. As is the result in itself, which is very different from other polls (albeit them also suffering from the same vulnerability), and from the most recent scraps of market information available.

Also, it is hard for me to believe that only about 30% of EN Worlds members played 3.x regularily between 2005 and 2008 when D&D4e was released and that D&D4 picked up 70% new players since its release.

But of course it could be an accurate description of the playing habits, since EN World has had a lot of new members over the last years who probably are playing D&D4 and who started gaming with D&D4.

That's what I'm thinking when I read this poll.

/M

 

[Stormonu]

Played pretty regular 3E/3.5E and at least 5 attempts at 4E, three of which were played out to about 3rd level and then just imploded (one of those was me as a player, which is a very rare occurrence for me).

If the poll numbers haven't been stuffed, that's well...Wow!

 

[delericho]

Also, it is hard for me to believe that only about 30% of EN Worlds members played 3.x regularily between 2005 and 2008 when D&D4e was released and that D&D4 picked up 70% new players since its release.

Yeah. Either there's been a collective failure in reading comprehension, or the vote has been stuffed.

 

[Nifft]

If the poll numbers haven't been stuffed, that's well...Wow!

When I voted, the ratio was 22.

Soon after I voted, the 4e option grew by 200 votes. Remove those 200 votes and you get about the same 22 ratio as before.

"Moral: Nifft shouldn't vote", -- N

 

[CleverNickName]

For future reference:

The Edition War Flowchart.

Might come in handy in a few more pages...


A lot of us still play 2E, BECM, or other editions of the game more often than we play 3.x or 4E. My longest-running campaign, a BECM Isle of Dread adventure path, doesn't fit the poll at all. It would be nice to have a "Neither" option to the poll, just so that the non-polarized gamers could be counted.

 

[Mallus]

I ran a clever, idiosyncratic 3e campaign for several years.

I co-run a clever, idiosyncratic 4e campaign now.

(and one of my New Year's resolutions is to start running the 3e campaign again, albeit using M&M2e/Wizards & Warriors instead of D&D).

 

[Zhaleskra]

The settings I like are for 3.x. While there are some hiccups, those can easily be patched with well thought out house rules. 4e simply has never interested me, and no example of play I've witnessed has changed that.

 

[Cyronax]

Several hundred responses later, if ENworld internet polls are to be believed 67% of ENworlders play 'exclusive 4e', and 17% play 3.x.

Interesting.

I blame WotC for this thread's questions.