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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7347986" data-attributes="member: 20564">I'm going to include "D&D-like" d20 games in here.AD&D 2ed blows all of the3 others away in terms of length of time as well as hours played.  Really, it's in an unassailable spot for me both with how long it was out but also those were my HS and college years and I'll never have the density of gaming - the number of hours per week spent - that I don't see any edition ever surpassing that.Hmm, for 5e to surpass it in years is possible.  To surpass it in hours spent, I think it would need to be "the version" for four decades (~35ish years more), and that I have an active gaming life after I retire.3ed (combining 3.0 and 3.5) is next.  I ran 12 years of campaigns in it as well as being a player in several campaigns.  But I completely burned out on the system, so I skipped Pathfinder completely.13th Age is next, but I'm running the only local campaign of it I know so I don't get to be a player.  But that's been going on since before 5e was out.4e is next, but 5e will likely surpass it.  5e would have passed it if 13th Age didn't exist, but moving 5e down to lots of play but only limited running took a chunk from it that running a regular campaign would have put it over 4e.BEC (never got to the M or I) is last - I had it for several years, but really didn't have anyone to play with for big swaths of that time.</blockquote>