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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 5831188" data-attributes="member: 31646">3e and 3.5 were NOT separate editions. Your just reaching to a level thats kind of sad with that. All they did was incorporate some errata into a print run and call it 3 and a half to let people know they had done so. OD&D came out in 1974. and AD&D came out in 77. 3 years isnt great but considering it was the very begginings of the game and there were significant legal situations to deal with its understandable. After that theres no meaningful change to the game until AD&D 2nd edition in 1987. 10 years later. Then 3e came out in 2000 13 years after that. 4e was announced in august of 2007. 7 years after 3e. So 3X lasted for 7 years. 4e was actually released in June of 08.  4e died in january of 2012 lasting 3 and a half years in print. The exact same amount of time between OD&D and AD&D. And the shortest amount of time in the last 35 years.  Or put another way, the last time an edition died this fast most of the people who knew that the name D&D meant a game thought it was a form of satan worship and a very large percentage of people on this forum, myself included were no where near being born yet. Although i suppose if you really want to go back 35 years you can find an edition that died this fast.</blockquote>