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Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?
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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 7965176" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>I promise that I'm not trying to create a popularity contest between editions here; I'm only trying to get people to reminisce about their favorite memories of playing older editions of D&D. But I suspected the tone would change when we got to 3rd Edition. This is usually the edition that starts trying to "beat" the others in some way.</p><p></p><p>I get that a lot of 3rd Edition nostalgia is tied up in the negative. People complained when it was released, complained when it was updated to 3.5, complained when it was discontinued...and for the first time, the Internet made it possible for complaints about a new D&D edition to be amplified into noise. So I can see how some folks on the Internet might feel they have old scores to settle, to "prove" (if only to themselves) that Edition X was Best Dog.</p><p></p><p>But the thing is, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-official-en-world-puppy-doggo-thread.667140/" target="_blank">all dogs are Best Dog</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The next one will be for 4th Edition, and I think it might be the last one in this series of surveys. I wanted to get people talking about the older editions of D&D, and share some of their experiences with them...and 5th Edition isn't an "older edition" of D&D. It's the current edition: it is still in print, it is still actively being updated (errata was issued just a couple weeks ago), and still being developed (if you missed the new Unearthed Arcana, you need to check it out.) It's been several years since its release date, but even so it's still the new kid on the block.</p><p></p><p>And [USER=99786]@Eyes of Nine[/USER] is right: d20 Modern and Star Wars d20 are amazing games that use the d20 System, but they aren't different editions of Dungeons & Dragons. But if pressed, I would admit that these games fall under the "d20 SRD" umbrella, which is what <em>this </em>survey measures.</p><p></p><p>So if you played d20 Modern or Star Wars d20, and you feel they should be included in these D&D surveys, then vote accordingly in this survey and tell us about it in the comments. That is the nostalgia content that I crave!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 7965176, member: 50987"] I promise that I'm not trying to create a popularity contest between editions here; I'm only trying to get people to reminisce about their favorite memories of playing older editions of D&D. But I suspected the tone would change when we got to 3rd Edition. This is usually the edition that starts trying to "beat" the others in some way. I get that a lot of 3rd Edition nostalgia is tied up in the negative. People complained when it was released, complained when it was updated to 3.5, complained when it was discontinued...and for the first time, the Internet made it possible for complaints about a new D&D edition to be amplified into noise. So I can see how some folks on the Internet might feel they have old scores to settle, to "prove" (if only to themselves) that Edition X was Best Dog. But the thing is, [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-official-en-world-puppy-doggo-thread.667140/']all dogs are Best Dog[/URL]. The next one will be for 4th Edition, and I think it might be the last one in this series of surveys. I wanted to get people talking about the older editions of D&D, and share some of their experiences with them...and 5th Edition isn't an "older edition" of D&D. It's the current edition: it is still in print, it is still actively being updated (errata was issued just a couple weeks ago), and still being developed (if you missed the new Unearthed Arcana, you need to check it out.) It's been several years since its release date, but even so it's still the new kid on the block. And [USER=99786]@Eyes of Nine[/USER] is right: d20 Modern and Star Wars d20 are amazing games that use the d20 System, but they aren't different editions of Dungeons & Dragons. But if pressed, I would admit that these games fall under the "d20 SRD" umbrella, which is what [I]this [/I]survey measures. So if you played d20 Modern or Star Wars d20, and you feel they should be included in these D&D surveys, then vote accordingly in this survey and tell us about it in the comments. That is the nostalgia content that I crave! [/QUOTE]
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