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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3697456" data-attributes="member: 18280">I believe that the initial quote you made had to do with 1e, which was a different animal than 2e altogether.  If the question is "were there more 2e or 3e books?" then I'd be stumped indeed.  It was your "And they just passed 1st edition a year ago" that twigged me.1e was, what?  DMG, PHB, MM, MMII, FF, UA, DSG, WSG, OA, MotP, D&D, GHA, & DLA for hardcovers, right?  Assuming that we aren't discussing new printings/reprints.3e is, what?  DMG, PHB, MM, MMII, MMIII, FF, UA, OA, MotP, D&D, and then you'll have to tell me what to exclude because of release date from Hero Builder's Guidebook, Psionics Handbook, Complete Warrior, Draconomicon, Complete Adventurer, Races of Destiny, Sandstorm, Lords of Madness, Frostburn, Weapons of Legacy, Stormwrack, Planar Handbook, MMIV, MMV, Libris Mortis, Complete Arcane, Races of the Wild, Heroes of Battle, Book of Exalted Deeds, Complete Divine, Savage Species, Arms & Equipment Guide, Book of Vile Darkness, Heroes of Horror, DMG II, PHB II, Ghostwalk, Magic of Incarnum, Spell Compendium, Races of the Dragon, Races of Stone, Miniatures Handbook, and Expanded Psionics Handbook.  And the Forgotten Realms CS, Eberron CS, Bo9S, MIC, and Tome of Magic.I'm sure I'm forgetting something on one list or the other, but from where I'm sitting, that's 35 for WotC vs 13 for TSR 1e, so that WotC would have had to put out 2/3rds of its hardcovers in the last year to have just passed 1st Edition a year ago.Now, I didn't go into modules, supplementary products, or softcover products, but I'm betting that WotC has passed TSR 1e long ago no matter how you slice it, and is hard on the heels of 2e (if it hasn't passed 2e yet).  I mean, 2e was about as many hardcovers as 1e, and a lot of softcovers....but a lot of the 2e class softcovers have 3e softcover equivilents.  It would take a while to tally them all up.</blockquote>

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