Dungeons & Dragons Editions: Where Do You Stand?

[Mighty Halfling]

I've really enjoyed my experience with 3.5e. By far it's lead to my most fulfilling RPG experience.
I haven't tried 4e yet, and it doesn't look like it's happening anytime in the near future barring some major financial windfall on my part. (I'd have to buy books for the whole playing group to really get a chance to.)
Not sure on Pathfinder yet.
I've played a smattering of 2E.
My next most-played edition was 1E (is that "BECMI"?), and I had a good time then, but not stupendous. Just far too many weird rules. Still my favorite set of monster books though!
After 3.5e, Red Box Basic and Blue Box Expert are my No. 2 choice. Lots of fun there, and I loved the art style and simplicity of play.
Never played the pamphlet versions, though I owned some of them.

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

OD+D - never played*
Basic-Expert-etc. - never played*
...
* - though I somewhat sacreligiously kinda mush those both into 1e in my mind, as they're so compatible...

While I agree that all the TSR editions are pretty compatible, I think OD&D has more in common with AD&D than to Classic (B/X, BECM, etc). That's *especially* true if many rules from the Supplements are included, but I think it's true of just the three little books/white box, too.

 

[DItheringFool]

Pathfinder is my game of choice. But the Blue Box would be my second choice.

 

[Tetsubo]

I find this poll depressing. Forty-nine percent of those polled prefer 4E.

I'll be sticking with 3.5.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I find this poll depressing. Forty-nine percent of those polled prefer 4E.

I'll be sticking with 3.5.

Don't feel too bad, I'd leave every edition for BECMI, and that's at 2%.

You sometimes play what you can get involved in.

 

[Hussar]

Tetsubo, why is that depressing? Personally, I think it's great. We've got a nice diverse group here, with pretty much every game represented. Yup, 4e's got the edge, but, is anyone really surprised by that? 3e had the edge for 8 years. Not a bad run of things.

I think an interesting poll might be to change the question slightly from, "What is your favorite game" to "What are you playing right now". I wonder if the results would be different.

 

[hewligan]

I think that those of you trying to read into this poll that Lisa at Paizo is somehow wrong are trying to use a current snapshot to extrapolate a historical balance. At present this poll shows about half the users of the site prefer 4e. What was it 2 weeks ago? What about 2 months ago? To me, the numbers above could mean several different things, which at its core boils down to:

1) This shows that a lot of 3e users of the site have left and moved on to other forums where their views are more welcome. They aren't voting here because, well, they aren't here any more.

2) This shows that most users have adopted 4e and love it, and that ENWorld hasn't actually changed its user base at all, just that the users have changed their game preference

Fans of 4e are going to go with number 2, obviously, but number 1 is just as viable a reason for the reflection we are seeing in the poll.

Personally (and therefore anecdotally), ENWorld is a less welcome place for me as a 3e player, and as such I spend less time here and more elsewhere.

 

[Toben the Many]

I think that only 49% of the people on ENworld playing 4e is pretty low, actually. I'm rather shocked. I thought it would be somewhere around 75% at the very least by now.

I think that this shows that 4e has not caught on to the hard-core market as much as some suspected.

 

[drothgery]

I think that only 49% of the people on ENworld playing 4e is pretty low, actually. I'm rather shocked. I thought it would be somewhere around 75% at the very least by now.

Given that 4e has been out for less than 3 months (which means a lot of people haven't played it yet, either because they're in ongoing 3.x campaigns or because they're college students whose gaming groups are on-campus and so don't play in the summer), ~50% already playing it is a pretty good ramp-up, I'd think.

My group, FWIW, didn't switch from 3.0 to 3.5 for over a year.

 

[qstor]

I'm surprised that 4e is wining almost 2-1. I played 4e again at GenCon in the RPGA Delve and it still doesn't seem like D&D to me. And I still fail to see how Andy Collins can say its a better game from 3.5 cause it fixes so many things wrong with 3.5.

If I'm starting an edition war I'll stop.

Mike