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<blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 5302268" data-attributes="member: 51325">My impression was that&nbsp; a) not a lot of D&amp;D players were actually interested in those settings. Relating to the thread, with the amount of stuff being produced, it was MUCH MUCH easier for good products to escape notice. One of the reason why 2e has fewer &quot;classics&quot; imo has nothing to do with the quality of the books, as Celebrim alludes to, but my belief that a classic only becomes one when EVERYONE was playing it.2e' blistering pace of material (thanks Echohawk for those graphs...still have them from last time) pretty much meant that unless you were rich, you missed out a lot(I for example, think I must've bought a new D&amp;D book at least once every fortnight and many a time it was closer to once a week during the 2e era and I don't have any of the green softcovers and I think only one or two of the blue softcovers - never got Jakandor either for example)b) systems like CORPSm GURPS et al were much better suited for historical type games.D&amp;D frankly has never been my first choice for any type of &quot;historically accurate&quot; game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AllisterH, post: 5302268, member: 51325"] My impression was that a) not a lot of D&D players were actually interested in those settings. Relating to the thread, with the amount of stuff being produced, it was MUCH MUCH easier for good products to escape notice. One of the reason why 2e has fewer "classics" imo has nothing to do with the quality of the books, as Celebrim alludes to, but my belief that a classic only becomes one when EVERYONE was playing it. 2e' blistering pace of material (thanks Echohawk for those graphs...still have them from last time) pretty much meant that unless you were rich, you missed out a lot (I for example, think I must've bought a new D&D book at least once every fortnight and many a time it was closer to once a week during the 2e era and I don't have any of the green softcovers and I think only one or two of the blue softcovers - never got Jakandor either for example) b) systems like CORPSm GURPS et al were much better suited for historical type games. D&D frankly has never been my first choice for any type of "historically accurate" game. [/QUOTE]

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