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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6942902" data-attributes="member: 22424">I was making a point about the larger RPG market, not just D&D specifically (hence "not many games, and even fewer editions") - so you'd have to count thinks like all those Storyteller games (with their 2nd editions after one year), the various Star Wars games, and the many many RPGs that appeared and disappeared in short order. Taken over the market as a whole, the percentage making it to 5 years is pretty small - D&D (and now Pathfinder) being very much exceptional for their longevity.Also, a nitpick, some of your numbers are wrong: 4e wasn't published until 2008 (giving it 6 years and 3.5e 5), and BECMI was a replacement for the previous B/X, so should be split. Unless of course you want to count to when an edition ceased production, in which case your end-dates for 2nd Ed and 4e both need revising.</blockquote>