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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8686451" data-attributes="member: 50987">This is blowing my mind...not at all what I expected.  I know beggars can't be choosers, and the data probably doesn't exist for each separate version of 'Basic' Dungeons & Dragons (Mondvay, Holmes, and Rules Cyclopedia) but I would really love to see it if it does.A while ago at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown, I was missing my friends and feeling all nostalgic about D&D.  I decided to do a series of survey threads about each edition of D&D: I went through each edition of the game one by one, asking people if they'd played them and what they thought of them.  And the results:[ATTACH=full]253037[/ATTACH](full results <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/edition-experience-updated-survey-results-jan-2021-all-surveys.671694/post-8164086" target="_blank">here</a>, as of January 2021)From each of the individual surveys, it looks like AD&D 1E was ENWorld's clear favorite of the TSR-era.  But if we combine both the Holmes and Moldvay sets and the Rules Cyclopedia into a single category called "Basic," which seems to be what was done with the sales graphs upthread, we get a different picture:149 -- I played one or more of them, and I remember liking them 20 -- I played one or more of them, and I wasn't impressed one way or another 7 -- I played one or more of them, and I didn't really like them 24 -- I'm playing one or more of them right now and so far, I like them 1  -- I'm playing one or more of  them right now; I'll have to let you know later 1 -- I'm playing one or more of  them right now and so far, I don't like them 29 -- I never played one or more of these editions, but I'd like to 16 -- I never played one or more of these edition, or even considered it tbh 14 -- I never played one or more of these editions, and I don't really want toDoing this, Basic would beat out all other contenders, even 3rd Edition.  Which...seems to match the graphs above.Wild.EDIT:  Yikes, that survey summary is out of date.  Looks like there's been a lot of activity in the 18 months since I last checked them.  I'll see about updating it later this weekend.</blockquote>

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