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<blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6174501" data-attributes="member: 6716779"><p>Ten years ago it seemed to be very one true way (3.5) and there were a few grogs around. Retroclones for the most part did not exist (hackmaster, maybe Castles and Crusades?) and older D&D barely got mentioned over on the wizards site. D&DM was a new mini line, you had Dragon and Dungeon in print, finding players was easy.</p><p></p><p> With the announcement for next I expected the 3rd ed and 4th ed edition war to keep on going but OSR players seem to be coming out of the woodwork and it seems I was not the only 3.x player to go back to AD&D or retroclones either. Even on this site on any day you can see the various tags people use for whatever edition, clone or whatever they are playing. Was the fragmentation caused by 4E, 3.x still going via Pathfinder after 13 years, people getting sick of WoTC? Are numbers of D&D players contracting or just harder to find due to the sundering?</p><p></p><p>3rd ed is now the best supported version ever and in a few years via Pathfinder will be the longest lasting in print. Right now it is tied with 1st ed for that and BECMI technically is the longest lasting version of D&D (1977- 1990's) but was not really have that much support from 1991-1994 (rules cyclopedia, a few Dungeon appearances). Probably a good thing for the players, bad for D&D as a monolithic system?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zardnaar, post: 6174501, member: 6716779"] Ten years ago it seemed to be very one true way (3.5) and there were a few grogs around. Retroclones for the most part did not exist (hackmaster, maybe Castles and Crusades?) and older D&D barely got mentioned over on the wizards site. D&DM was a new mini line, you had Dragon and Dungeon in print, finding players was easy. With the announcement for next I expected the 3rd ed and 4th ed edition war to keep on going but OSR players seem to be coming out of the woodwork and it seems I was not the only 3.x player to go back to AD&D or retroclones either. Even on this site on any day you can see the various tags people use for whatever edition, clone or whatever they are playing. Was the fragmentation caused by 4E, 3.x still going via Pathfinder after 13 years, people getting sick of WoTC? Are numbers of D&D players contracting or just harder to find due to the sundering? 3rd ed is now the best supported version ever and in a few years via Pathfinder will be the longest lasting in print. Right now it is tied with 1st ed for that and BECMI technically is the longest lasting version of D&D (1977- 1990's) but was not really have that much support from 1991-1994 (rules cyclopedia, a few Dungeon appearances). Probably a good thing for the players, bad for D&D as a monolithic system? [/QUOTE]
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