MERGED - "About Edition Wars" threads x9

[JeffB]

All right, I guess there was no Gold Box edition for 1974 D&D. Sorry about that.

I could've sworn I had actually held one in my hands though.

Could be the guy who was trying to sell me one for two hundred bucks was messing with me.

Sorry.

No worries-sounds like you were being duped.

Here is a pic of the gold box Immortals set

The place to go for old D&D product info is The Acaeum you can see everything and check out all the printings there

 

[TarionzCousin]

All right, I guess there was no Gold Box edition for 1974 D&D. Sorry about that.

I could've sworn I had actually held one in my hands though.

Could be the guy who was trying to sell me one for two hundred bucks was messing with me.

Sorry.

I'll sell you a gold box edition of D&D for only $150. I can get it in the mail tomorrow, if the paint is dry by then....

 

[Umbran]

When you really think about it, technically, 4th Edition is not truly 4th edition.

Grape Nuts contains neither grapes, nor nuts. Discuss.

Little John was not a small man, and Apple Jacks don't taste like apples. The name of a thing does not have to be technically accurate. I think that holds especially when what is technically accurate is not clear.

What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Technically, every roleplaying game out there is an edition of D&D because they all try to fix something the designers though was wrong with D&D.

I think you are fundamentally incorrect here. You conflate, "I want something different," with, "There is something wrong with the original."

Miller's "Death of a Salesman" was not written because there's something that needed fixing in Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The Beatles didn't record "Yellow Submarine" because Jerry Lee Lewis fundamentally screwed up on "Great Balls of Fire!". You can want different without thinking earlier things in the genre are flawed.

 

[TarionzCousin]

You can want different without thinking earlier things in the genre are flawed.

I want a pony.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I want a pony.

No fair! I wanted that pony!

 

[Achan hiArusa]

I think you are fundamentally incorrect here. You conflate, "I want something different," with, "There is something wrong with the original."

Miller's "Death of a Salesman" was not written because there's something that needed fixing in Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The Beatles didn't record "Yellow Submarine" because Jerry Lee Lewis fundamentally screwed up on "Great Balls of Fire!". You can want different without thinking earlier things in the genre are flawed.

That is because I dropped the "t" in thought and it came out "though." It was perceived problems with D&D that lead to other games such as Gurps, Tunnels & Trolls, Palladium, Runequest, etc. Even if the perceived problem was that you didn't want to play Fantasy, its still a problem and requires you change how you play and what the rule set was.

 

[Chris Knapp]

(it could count if you say the transition from Dieties & Demigods to Legends & Lore does because of the elimination of Elric and Cthulhu).

/nitpick

It was still called Deities & Demigods after the removal of the Elric & Cthulhu. (I actually have both copies.) Legends & Lore came later, post purge.

 

[AngryMojo]

I want a pony.

And I have the new and improved donkeyhorse.

So mwah!

 

[Stormonu]

Eh, if you want to have fun with editions, here's my take

0) Chainmail
1) OD&D
2) Holmes
3) AD&D (1E)
4) Moldvay/Cook D&D
5) Mentzer D&D (Were there actual changes between the BECMI rules and the Rules Cyclopedia? Don't remember there being any, just a consolidation)
6) Unearthed Arcana (1E)
7) AD&D 2E
8) Player's Option
9) Dragonlance SAGA
10) D&D 3E
11) D&D 3.5E
12) 4E
13) Essentials 4E

<Edit:> Gah! I've forgotten how to count past 5!

 

[TheAuldGrump]

You mean white on woodgrain?

Or Beige box. (Mine wasn't white white, but an off white - with woodgrain.)

The Auld Grump