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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8054792" data-attributes="member: 8863">If it weren't for WotC, D&amp;D may very well have died with TSR.As for the various editions, I basically seen them as two separate forks of the original D&amp;D, with Holmes belonging to OD&amp;D.AD&amp;D came first, and regardless of what some players want to believe everything WotC has put out is a continuation of that lineage.&nbsp; They're called 3e, 4e, and 5e for a reason.&nbsp; If one looks at the developments of 2e over the course of the 90s, the links to 3e are pretty evident.The classic D&amp;D game is a sepeate system.&nbsp; Moldvay did not follow Holmes with his Basic set, and the work done by Cook, Marsh, Mentzer, and Allston followed up on it.&nbsp; Now, B/X generally was very similar to 1e, but the systems started to diverge with Mentzer's work on Companion and Masters, and the differences got even bigger with 2e and then the RC being noticably different systems.&nbsp; And since 2e was much more popular, the D&amp;D line eventually died out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8054792, member: 8863"] If it weren't for WotC, D&D may very well have died with TSR. As for the various editions, I basically seen them as two separate forks of the original D&D, with Holmes belonging to OD&D. AD&D came first, and regardless of what some players want to believe everything WotC has put out is a continuation of that lineage. They're called 3e, 4e, and 5e for a reason. If one looks at the developments of 2e over the course of the 90s, the links to 3e are pretty evident. The classic D&D game is a sepeate system. Moldvay did not follow Holmes with his Basic set, and the work done by Cook, Marsh, Mentzer, and Allston followed up on it. Now, B/X generally was very similar to 1e, but the systems started to diverge with Mentzer's work on Companion and Masters, and the differences got even bigger with 2e and then the RC being noticably different systems. And since 2e was much more popular, the D&D line eventually died out. [/QUOTE]

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