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<blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 5417894" data-attributes="member: 4086">2nd Edition dropped the numbering as of 1995, feeling that there was no longer a need to differentiate. (That was probably the point at which they'd sold through the last of the 1E backstock. TSR's approach to edition change was dramatically different from WotC's &quot;There is no back catalog&quot; approach. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )&nbsp;&nbsp; Having my 4th Edition Core Rulebook Collection at hand, the box and the back covers refer to '4th edition'. The front covers don't. The credits refer to the 4th Edition design and development teams, but the text of the books only references '4th Edition' in the &quot;History of D&amp;D&quot; sidebar in the PH.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M.L. Martin, post: 5417894, member: 4086"] 2nd Edition dropped the numbering as of 1995, feeling that there was no longer a need to differentiate. (That was probably the point at which they'd sold through the last of the 1E backstock. TSR's approach to edition change was [i]dramatically[/i] different from WotC's "There is no back catalog" approach. :) ) Having my 4th Edition Core Rulebook Collection at hand, the box and the back covers refer to '4th edition'. The front covers don't. The credits refer to the 4th Edition design and development teams, but the text of the books only references '4th Edition' in the "History of D&D" sidebar in the [i]PH[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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