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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 8751581" data-attributes="member: 25619">Totally.  I care a lot about the health of the game overall.  Which is why I’m happy for 5e‘s success (even though I rarely play it and never DM it) and hope the Golden Goose - the edition that went culturally mainstream and undoubtedly has the largest player base in history - doesn’t get derailed.Though none of my current players came from 5e.Campaign 1: 1 from Basic, 3 from 1e, 4 I was their first DMCampaign 2: 1 from 1e, 6 I was their first DMI was a “Day One” adopter of 3 editions.2e, I remember my friend who was later a game store owner and now is a game designer bringing the PHB he travelled many miles for into my room, as the group gathered rapt at these new delights.… But I didn’t actually like it.  Within 1.5 years, I stopped playing D&D and was running unrelated games.  It took until 1996 (8 years after 2e) for me to dig out my AD&D 1e materials and start playing with friends who had all dropped.  I have never stopped DMing since.3e, I ignored because I was happy with 1e and had a bad experience with 2e.  A friend who I’d brought back to D&D advised me to try it, I became a player in a 3e campaign I enjoyed, and I switched my campaigns about a year late.3.5e, I switched immediately and never looked back - still running it today.  My players complained about yet another edition change (1e to 3e to 3.5e), but it was largely painless.4e, I was literally there on Day One - at the launch event in Seattle, with a signed PHB to prove it.  I played for about a year - with the same DM who I’d first played 3e with - but I didn’t like.  I never switched what I DM’d.5e, I largely ignored.  Since it and 3e were phenomenally successful, that was apparently a good omen.  I bought the PHB early but the only campaign I joined was short lived by a first time DM, and I never was inclined to learn it all to DM it myself.  The majority of my playing of 5e has been GenCon Online.  It was fun, but I noticed the DM’s were mixing in some earlier rules, which is great - I’m a firm believer in Rule Zero.  I remember one GenCon DM saying “huh, I don’t know the rule for this - does anyone know?“ I answered, “No idea in 5e, but in 3e the rule is X” and that’s what he decided.</blockquote>

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