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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9109843" data-attributes="member: 86653">I started with B/X in 1984 and quickly switched to AD&D. We played AD&D through 2E, 3E, and 3.5. We switched to 4E when it came out and again to 5E when the playtest dropped.2E wasn't different enough to justify buying new books. We house ruled what we liked about 2E into our AD&D games. It wasn't much so it wasn't hard. What we saw of 3E and 3.5 was not enticing at all so we kept on keeping on with AD&D. 4E did a lot that we absolutely loved so switching wasn't hard. But by the time the 5E playtest rolled around we were tired of the overly-long combats. If we keep playing name-brand D&D, it'll likely be 5E with some 2024 revisions as house rules or we'll switch back to AD&D. We're also branching out into the OSR with Old-School Essentials and DCC RPG.Depends entirely on what the rest of the hobby does. It's mostly fear of missing out. Depending on the popularity of the editions you're talking about you can go from having as many weekly games as you can handle to not playing for years. If you stake your claim to an unpopular edition and a wildly popular edition comes along, unless you have a solid group, you're sunk. Or unless you can find others to play with, which is easier with so many people playing online now...but it's still hard to round up groups for non-D&D games. Certain editions (the more popular ones) are easier to find games for but the unpopular editions, you're lucky to find 2-3 people who like it, much less are willing to play it.</blockquote>

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