D&D General 50 Years of D&D On a Single Chart

[doss_2202]

Very!

One thing I would add is that in many ways if you consider 3 and 3.5, 4 and Essentials in potential "groups" as almost a single "edition", I would argue 1E and 2E could also be grouped as a single AD&D edition. Most people freely combined rules from 1E and 2E, much of the text in 2E was nearly copy and pasted from 1E.

In many ways, 2E was simply "1.5E".

Interestingly enough, if you group 1E/2E, as many people played it as a single AD&D, but also group all the "Basic" versions, you end up with three nearly equal groups: Basic, AD&D, and WotC-era.

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Do you have the link for that picture? I am writing a paper on D&D through the history and I would like to use this picture.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Sorry for perhaps being a complete idiot here, but how is the single pie graph supposed to work when the Basic line entirely overlapped the other line? Wouldn't you need to superimpose it to make it "work"? At least I'm looking at it and not getting how 60+ years is supposed to fit on a 50 year graph.

Again, I'm probably just the idiot here, but no one else mentioned it on the first couple pages, so I'll bring it up. (Apologies if it was already addressed on a later page.)

 

[ezo]

Do you have the link where you found this photo? I would love to use it for my public speaking assignment.

I used the original from this post: D&D General - 50 Years of D&D On a Single Chart

(Which appears to be from a Wikipedia site.)

And then updated it to the one I posted myself.