D&D Older Editions

[haakon1]

Huh, “D&D Older Editions” is now its own forum under “General Tabletop Discussion“.

It seems the official position is: If ain’t 5e, it ain’t D&D.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

An...interesting choice. Basically ghettoizes discussion of anything other than 5e, which is less than ideal IMO. But I guess that's just how it's gonna be.

 

[BigZebra]

On the other hand, if the earlier editions, are what makes you tick, now you can limit yourself to that, and not be burdened by all the 5e posts.

 

[John R Davis]

Hmm. Not sure. They will still be plenty of crossover, as they are 95% similar.

 

[GuyBoy]

Happy enough with the change. I play 5e now but can come here to grognard-out on memories of Original and 1E.

 

[JustinCase]

It's a lot easier to find 3.x stuff now at a glance, because that's what I play a lot besides 5e. I like it.

No, I don't think it's now "official" that older editions "aren't D&D"; that's just reading what you want to read into this. It's literally in the subforum title: "D&D older editions". (To be fair, it would be elegant to add "5E" somewhere in the original subforum description, but that's nitpicking.)

 

[CleverNickName]

Seems like a logical way to structure things to me. (shrug)

 

[Morrus]

Huh, “D&D Older Editions” is now its own forum under “General Tabletop Discussion“.

It seems the official position is: If ain’t 5e, it ain’t D&D.

What an odd thing to say. It literally says “D&D” in the subforum name.

An...interesting choice. Basically ghettoizes discussion of anything other than 5e, which is less than ideal IMO. But I guess that's just how it's gonna be.

The exact opposite. The idea is to encourage discussion without having those threads immediately buried under a million 5E threads.

 

[Lanefan]

The exact opposite. The idea is to encourage discussion without having those threads immediately buried under a million 5E threads.

Nice theory.

I suspect, however, that the practice will be that this sub-forum gets very little traffic and not many new threads. (though I'd be happy to be wrong in my suspicions).

 

[LoganRan]

On the other hand, if the earlier editions, are what makes you tick, now you can limit yourself to that, and not be burdened by all the 5e posts.

This.

I was really pleased to see this new sub-forum so that I can more easily find the thread topics of greater interest to me as someone who prefers the older editions (B/X and 1E) of the game.

NOTE: One thing that I did notice is that this forum cannot be directly reached via the "forum list" under the Community tab at the top of the web page which is how I generally get to forums. Will the forum list be updated to make a direct connection to this forum possible?