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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4381477" data-attributes="member: 29398">I have no idea how to answer this poll, or even if I legitimately can, for a few reasons:1. While I know when I started playing in a 3e game (Feb. 2001) I don't remember when 3e was actually released thus I don't know how many months to mark down.2. While I played in a 3e game for 7 years until recently leaving it, I never fully "switched" away from 1e; I was either running or playing or both in 1e all the way through and still am today.  And I skipped 2e completely, and have no intentions of going to 4e in the foreseeable future.And, a few observations:Adventure conversion:  From what I can tell, the one 4e adventure I've seen (KotS) seems easily convertible to 3e (my old DM just started running it in 3e) and-or 1e (I intend to do this later).Community divide:  From what I've seen even within our own gaming community of friends and acquaintances (total about 30 people) there is a slowly-widening divide between the 1e camp and the 3e camp that has taken 8 years to develop (the 4e release, and the start of some new 3e games, have crystallized this somewhat).  Sure, there's some as likes both, and one or two that like neither, but more and more heels are starting to get dug in.  Interesting to see that a similar thing is happening on the larger scale.  And while I know several of us have picked up some 4e material, I don't know anyone who is actually planning to switch to 4e from whatever they have now.Forecast:  Despite some people's best attempts, support for 3e *will* wind down, and at or before that point lots of people will switch...to somewhere.  Some will go 4e, others will go 0-1-2e or a variant e.g. C+C, others will drift away completely.  But unlike some I just don't see the 3e crowd going over to 4e en masse, other than those who will only play the "official" game i.e. RPGA types.Lanefan</blockquote>

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