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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5755596" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>Realistically speaking, I think you need to resign yourself to it. It happens with every edition change in D&D, although with different magnitudes depending on how well the newest edition captures the player base. For example, the change from TSR AD&D (1e/2e) to WotC D&D (3e) was enough to spawn the Dragonsfoot board and fuel an old school revival. Interesting niches, but not significant competition for WotC. The change from 3x to 4e was enough to generate a 3x-based competitor that is increasingly likely to outsell 4e in the game store market, something we hadn't seen since TSR's money woes prevented it from paying its printer and getting product out to the market. </p><p></p><p>I'm trying to remember as much of the shift from 1e to 2e as I can. That's long enough ago and with relatively little access to the internet (as well as TSR being internet unfriendly) that it's harder. But since the two editions were so compatible, I remember seeing both 1e and 2e materials being used at game tables, pretty much interchangeably. There were holdouts for 1e, but they were so easy to integrate into 2e tables I didn't see much of a fuss. The transition was certainly a cakewalk compared to the transition from 3x to 4e.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 5755596, member: 3400"] Realistically speaking, I think you need to resign yourself to it. It happens with every edition change in D&D, although with different magnitudes depending on how well the newest edition captures the player base. For example, the change from TSR AD&D (1e/2e) to WotC D&D (3e) was enough to spawn the Dragonsfoot board and fuel an old school revival. Interesting niches, but not significant competition for WotC. The change from 3x to 4e was enough to generate a 3x-based competitor that is increasingly likely to outsell 4e in the game store market, something we hadn't seen since TSR's money woes prevented it from paying its printer and getting product out to the market. I'm trying to remember as much of the shift from 1e to 2e as I can. That's long enough ago and with relatively little access to the internet (as well as TSR being internet unfriendly) that it's harder. But since the two editions were so compatible, I remember seeing both 1e and 2e materials being used at game tables, pretty much interchangeably. There were holdouts for 1e, but they were so easy to integrate into 2e tables I didn't see much of a fuss. The transition was certainly a cakewalk compared to the transition from 3x to 4e. [/QUOTE]
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