Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8691786" data-attributes="member: 3457">It's kinda more if we just tackles it as the fifth editions of Advanced D&D which is a revision of 0e in the same way BX and BECMI are revisions of 0e. SO you have 0e-1e (it wasn't revised, they just did new covers), 2e, revised 2e with the black covers, 3e, 3.5, 4e, Essentials (which was a soft but heavy rethinking) and now 5e and 5eR (I refuse to call it 5.5) so that is 10 editions. 2e Revised was simple tweaks and clarifications akin to Cthulu editions, small subtle and unnoticeable changes. 3e started the whole an edition is a different game that people seem to be expecting with D&D since 4e and 5e are totally different games from 3.x era and all of them are wholly different mechanically from 0e-2eR. Since it is technically the 5th edition of AD&D though, one shouldn't be throwing Basic versions of D&D into the dog pile. It was very clear that 3e was supposed to be the successor to 2e and Basic D&D was a different game even if modules etc were still largely compatible. The ability scores were different, the hit points were different, the monsters functioned differently, the attack matrixes were different. It was just easy to whiff over that and not really care until 4e when it was really different.</blockquote>