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Hard to compare from these charts settings sales from their introduction through the periods when NEW settings are introduced (and sometimes introduced again or updated or revised or... etc) but my understanding is that what will become evident is that ,in general, each new setting sold less...

I'm gonna just go ahead and try it again... What is alignment FOR in D&D? How does alignment go about fulfilling its purpose as you just defined it? Do you have rules citations for any of that, or is it all just your own interpretation?

VERY few individuals really know what it is that alignment is supposed to do within D&D. I mean a RARE, rare few judging by internet posts I've read since the internet was even a thing (pre-WWW). Ask 10 people what alignment is FOR - you'll get 10 different answers. Why? Because the rules...

Nope. 1e rules don't say that you can't do it until x level nor only if you're x class. Any class can do it at any time, any level. At a certain level and class, however, there are benefits you otherwise won't get - guaranteed income from taxes, attracting followers, attracting settlers...

Quite so. I do remember being fairly disappointed with 2E, perhaps LESS for what it did change than what it didn't. I still went all-in on it for pretty much the duration of 2E though. Only started drifting away as TSR itself was dying/dead, but never felt any real pull to go back to it like...

I am a statistically insignificant respondent - I am so far outside what I'm sure is the normal customer profile it's amusing to think about it. But, if you never participate in feedback like this then you give up all right to complain that WotC hasn't or won't give you what you want or handle...

It's at this point someone needs to say look at 3.5 E6.

The inclusion of "D&D" in the show had absolutely nothing to do with promotion of D&D as a game, nor demonstrating the geek cred of anyone behind the scenes. The purpose of it being there was to provide support for why the KIDS were not only able to accept what was happening as being REAL, but...

We originally used the character creator that came WITH every 1st printing PH. It suffered from being SLOW, incapable of handling character advancement, buggy and had data errors, and apparently was not especially conducive to ever being updated - though they DID patch it. WotC announced that...

It wasn't many surveys and really wasn't massive either. They did what they could but they had no way to communicate reliably with their customer base. They had one survey in Dragon magazine, and they were reading other suggestions that people made - but this was before the internet existed...

Spelljammer, then Ravenloft, then the 1E Forgotten Realms.

Experience varied from one campaign to the next and from one character to the next. Some players would see their characters as loners or simply rootless wanderers, sometimes they just wanted a place to store their &^%$, still other times they were totally intending to make themselves a ruler...

Problem is that it requires a REALLY long answer (which is always certain to include a great deal of personal bias and preference), or a really short one that can't possibly explain the differences fully and clearly. The best way to really get a feel for the degree of difference and in what...

1E and 2E are very much alike, yet also quite different. :) Helpful, eh? 1E is definitely an acquired taste. It has plenty of issues that create struggles, but also has a "feel" that I believe was noticeably lost with 2E. 2E is definitely better written as far as rules clarity, and much...

Level is how we keep score. :) And E6 worked so well within the 3E framework just as a fluke of how 3E was built. Attempting to apply the same principles to other editions easily leads to difficulties that E6 really just didn't have to deal with - mostly by being able to simply supplant...

As DM, it would depend on the setting and my willingness to possibly embrace it long-term should the impossible happen and the campaign last a good long time. As a player I think I'd rather have a DM's own scratch-built game world as it is far more likely to be ideally adapted to the specific...

No edition of D&D has an expiration date. The fact that WotC isn't supporting it or doing anything with it doesn't prevent anyone else from doing things with it. Every D&D edition has clones of it or third party rulesets based on them. Even the edition that is likely most obscure (Holmes) has...

Never had a problem with it, nor has anyone I game with.

Depends entirely on the class I want to play and the kind of campaign I'm going to play them in. The latter often doesn't reveal itself until well after the game has been underway for a while.

For 1E at least, this is the correct answer. The rules simply did not address the loss of spells upon death/reaching 0 hit points, but it was clear that reaching 0 - regardless of whatever else then happened - meant your PC was down for a week to recover with NO spellcasting. Letting a PC get...