A Quick D&D Primer

[Holy Bovine]

"This is tiresome."


Ha! Hear hear!

This is putting it about as mildly as is Britishly possible, imo.

 

[Morrus]

I think that people can inuitively derive the existence of a 2E and a 1E from the existence of a 3E and a 4E.

It's not supposed to be a history of D&D, or even a description of each current system; just a very brief explanation of where D&D is at right now.

 

[SnowBlood]

I agree about saying something about Essentials. It's playable with 4E like pathfinder is with 3E? but I feel like it's really it's own thing in feel and power balance.

 

[denzoner]

Retro/Old-School was covered pretty well here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/columns/310462-retroclones-older-d-d-editions-updated.html

Though I'd say it's worth a bullet-point, because the D&D scene isn't bi-polar, OSR makes up a significant portion of "D&D" gamers. Especially with all the 3e/d20 variants like C&C and Hackmaster.

 

[Alphastream]

OSR makes up a significant portion of "D&D" gamers.

Has anyone ever guessed at numbers? I see internet excitement, but I haven't really seen older editions being played to any significant extent (despite traveling pretty widely across the US).