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Thank you, Scott, much appreciated.

To me, having worked in game companies in the past, this is an exceedingly easy call. This quote from Charles is one of the chief examples of some promotional language that got mangled by a lot of people. What he was bouncing off at the time were a bunch of surveys that WOTC did, starting by...

Charles, I just noticed this response, thanks for that. As I said, I was keenly interested in your clarification there to the "So-and-so said 1E PHB's had been outsold" claim.

Sure, that response wasn't directed at you. It was directed at folks such as in posts #31, 44, 58, etc., in this thread, claiming that it's been established that 4E is outselling 1E (under some metric). Scott, thanks for the input here, it's appreciated. Noted that "for the record I don't know...

So I can see from the video that darjr posted that that is not what he said. He did say that 4E was getting more preorders than 3E did for the last couple years. Look, I'm sure that 4E is selling a whole lot of books. That's not in doubt, nor am I interested in arguing that. But once again...

Link?

I'd love to see a direct answer to this.

I agree. And they were exceedingly careful to avoid mentioning 1E/2E in those comments. The PR "smell test" here only bolsters my skepticism. My guess is in fact that 1E still holds the PHB sales record. Despite rumor, WOTC still hasn't said otherwise, and they still haven't said 4E sales are...

So multiple people are pointing to this: It was sold out before it went on sale. What exactly does that mean? The linked article uses the phrase "sell-in", as in, "Sell-in for 4th Edition turned out to be considerably higher than for 3.5". So apparently that must not be end-customer sales...

That's fine. But my original point was specifically regarding this: "Yet when Mearls, Rouse and Slavichek all post about how 4e is breaking all sorts of records, selling extremely well..." So, I don't see any quotes from any of them about "selling well" or "breaking records", which seems to...

That'll be helpful.

I'm skeptical. Link, please?

I'm going to come at this in a different direction, because I think the other answers got derailed a bit by the initiative question. Obviously, we're talking about the 1E polearms here. To my knowledge, yes, characters have to declare "setting" weapons before they know a charge will take...

Strongly disagree re: holy professions. That's also not what Philotomy said above (that I can tell). Can you come up with 1 or 2 examples in published 1E/Basic where "priests" were anything other than "cleric class"?

Ari, I've got to say that you're the person who in their first post said "This is explicit in 4E and in 3E Eberron, but it's at least implicit in other settings as well." Mentioning multiple prior editions definitely made me think that a pan-edition discussion had been initiated.

Disagree -- this is a very recent (if somewhat widespread) notion. The implicit understanding in OD&D, Basic, 1E, 2E, and core 3E was very much the opposite. You really can't find core rules or adventures from 1975-2005 that say anything different. There's a pretty good tradition of presenting...

This I'll jump in and say that it's basically handled by the "surprise" check (start of combat: 1d6 each side, surprised on 1-2). Some classes modify that chance of surprise. If you're moving silently (thief) or magically silent/invisible, you should get +1 chance to suprise for each condition...

I'm at least as bemused by people who bought all the books prior to doing research to see whether they liked the game or not. That completely perplexes me.

It's easy. Non-veteran standard soldiers are defined (again in Classic D&D: OD&D, 1E, BXCMI) as 0-level. Unclassed in the d20 System (or War1), if you think that way.

Or English pubbery. :)