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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clockworkjoe" data-source="post: 1677658" data-attributes="member: 1321">The thing is that this discussion is largely irrelevant anyway. The people playing OD&D and other earlier versions will keep playing them, since they've all had a chance to look at the new editions and render judgment on them. Conversely, I would say at least 95% of those old schoolers played those games before 3E came out. Any new players will be recruited only by existing old schoolers, as opposed to 3E which gets virtually everyone else coming into the hobby. No new player/DM is going to seek out the older editions without some external prompting. I remember a study about how views in science changed over time. While it was initially thought that scientists would gradually change their views to adjust for new research, they discovered that the views changed mostly from old scientists retiring or dying and being replaced by younger scientists who simply held different views. This seems to be case in this situation.</blockquote>