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Media property adaptations are always an iffy metric.

We also have an increasingly large number of ways to engage in the hobby without being a measurable metric - not that we ever have had a large number of reliable metrics.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's being asked by a very hopeful prat. :) Not the case here - but the existence of the question doesn't indicate the occurance.

True. But acting as though there was no gap before the 3E glut kicked in ( also? Are we now NOSTALGIC about the glut? ) is a bit disingenuous.

This is factually wrong. There were two adventures at GenCon with the 3.0 launch. It took a bit for other things to be out.

Oh? Then I entirely misread the first post.

Entirely irrelevant. When we were at a restaurant after a Con and the waitress asked us what we did and responded to that with "Like Final Fantasy" - that's when the shift happened.

Um? Okay?

I may be mixing up games, but I believe SMS owns that property.

Careful, Snarf may declare you a Bard.

It's been a while and was pre Eternal September but the biggest complaint I remember was that the revised DMG, etc had only been out a couple of years before Second Edition and given that was in the height of the "hur hur T$R" grousing...

IME? Final Fantasy is the tipping point for this.

It also allows for textual clarification, presentation and style refreshes based on marketing data (these kids are all about the X now), or format changes, such as a Trade paperback format. Sometimes you just can't errata in a fix in a "reprint."

That was before the last round of massive printer consolidation and closures, as I recall. Certainly a factor.

Kidd Video! I'd never thought about Lost Worlds in this light before, but that makes sense as a strong overlap.

This is an entirely different thing.

I think that ties strongly to how you are defining the movement vector and if the percentage of the existing base you hope to engage with would translate to a large enough set of sales to support the efforts to establish your product line vs how much you might get running in a solo space or...

This begs the question of the bard to first-born exchange rate. How are they evaluated quality (or lack of)? chronology? Pure quantity? The mind wobbles!

I don't disagree with that at all. I find it odd to define chronologically backward rather than forward. I don't know that I think it's fully wrong-headed or anything of that sort, but it feels weird.

I have always assumed a clause like this is more protection from parallel or ignorant duplicated develop that could happen than any realistic expectation WotC might intentionally reuse a DMsG product material.