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Here's a fun little pie chart I made in Excel. It shows the publication history for each edition, as a portion of the past 50 years. And just for added fun, I broke out the different "flavors" of each edition as well, such as 3E and 3.5E, 4th Edition and Essentials, and the four different Basics:
Source: Wikipedia [1] [2]
AD&D 2E has the longest production run of any other edition, at 11 years; 5E is in second place at 10 years (and counting). Unless you want to group all of the "Basic D&D" editions into a single category, that is: Holmes + Moldvay + Mentzer + Allston would give you a total of 18 years, with tons of overlap.
The third runner up is AD&D 1E at 10 years.
The shortest run was OD&D, at just 3 years--but dynamite comes in small packages; it's the edition that started it all! An argument could be made that 4E had the shortest run (of just 2 years), because a lot of folks consider 4E and Essentials to be two separate product lines. I don't; so in my not-professional-opinion, I would say that 4E had the second shortest production run, at just 4 years including Essentials.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting. And I'm always looking for excuses to play around with Excel.
Source: Wikipedia [1] [2]
AD&D 2E has the longest production run of any other edition, at 11 years; 5E is in second place at 10 years (and counting). Unless you want to group all of the "Basic D&D" editions into a single category, that is: Holmes + Moldvay + Mentzer + Allston would give you a total of 18 years, with tons of overlap.
The third runner up is AD&D 1E at 10 years.
The shortest run was OD&D, at just 3 years--but dynamite comes in small packages; it's the edition that started it all! An argument could be made that 4E had the shortest run (of just 2 years), because a lot of folks consider 4E and Essentials to be two separate product lines. I don't; so in my not-professional-opinion, I would say that 4E had the second shortest production run, at just 4 years including Essentials.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting. And I'm always looking for excuses to play around with Excel.
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