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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 8860787" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I agree about folks talking about AD&amp;D when they mean 2e. I seldom refer to AD&amp;D as &quot;1e&quot; just because in my heart it will always be the real AD&amp;D, not that descendant with the Monstrous Compendium. It's kind of like why &quot;Star Wars to me always means the first movie, and those other titles Lucas later gave it annoy me to this day.I think a big reason why 2e and 4e get a lot less love has to do with the demographics of the game. AD&amp;D brought a lot of people into the game and so there is that hazy nostalgia for it, while 2e actually saw a contraction of the player base and then the bankruptcy of TSR (because of mismanagement, not because 2e was a bad game). 3e brought people back to the game and introduced the Roll20 system, while 4e again saw a contraction. And then 5e has been the biggest edition yet. So I think 2e and 4e suffer not so much for their own qualities, which are debatable, but just because they have smaller constituencies for a variety of reasons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 8860787, member: 7035894"] I agree about folks talking about AD&D when they mean 2e. I seldom refer to AD&D as "1e" just because in my heart it will always be the real AD&D, not that descendant with the Monstrous Compendium. It's kind of like why "Star Wars to me always means the first movie, and those other titles Lucas later gave it annoy me to this day. I think a big reason why 2e and 4e get a lot less love has to do with the demographics of the game. AD&D brought a lot of people into the game and so there is that hazy nostalgia for it, while 2e actually saw a contraction of the player base and then the bankruptcy of TSR (because of mismanagement, not because 2e was a bad game). 3e brought people back to the game and introduced the Roll20 system, while 4e again saw a contraction. And then 5e has been the biggest edition yet. So I think 2e and 4e suffer not so much for their own qualities, which are debatable, but just because they have smaller constituencies for a variety of reasons. [/QUOTE]

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