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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 7992268" data-attributes="member: 3457">Some of your numbers are a ways off. 1e was released with the MM in 1977 and lasted until 1989 when 2e came and was superseded in 2000. Basic D&amp;D, 3rd edition of that was BECMI and that is the one that lasted 13 years. The original Basic was a restatement of OD&amp;D and Cook was a redesign of that to make it its own game. It was the subsequent rewrites of BECMI that had relatively short periods you are listing. There was significant enough differences in BX that lumping BX and BECMI together is an error. But so few differences between BECMI and the black boxes that they aren’t a different edition since they relied on the Rules Cyclopedia which was mostly an edit of the BECM sets. Original was in print until 1980. Essentials/4e was discontinued in 2012 and all products released from that period leading up to 5e were either edition neutral or Next play test products like Draonspear. Part of the backlash against 4e was that it was too soon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="teitan, post: 7992268, member: 3457"] Some of your numbers are a ways off. 1e was released with the MM in 1977 and lasted until 1989 when 2e came and was superseded in 2000. Basic D&D, 3rd edition of that was BECMI and that is the one that lasted 13 years. The original Basic was a restatement of OD&D and Cook was a redesign of that to make it its own game. It was the subsequent rewrites of BECMI that had relatively short periods you are listing. There was significant enough differences in BX that lumping BX and BECMI together is an error. But so few differences between BECMI and the black boxes that they aren’t a different edition since they relied on the Rules Cyclopedia which was mostly an edit of the BECM sets. Original was in print until 1980. Essentials/4e was discontinued in 2012 and all products released from that period leading up to 5e were either edition neutral or Next play test products like Draonspear. Part of the backlash against 4e was that it was too soon. [/QUOTE]

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