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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7527591" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p>To clarify the bit I forgot to say: I distinctly remember that in the 90s or early 2000s, I'd look for a "D&D" game as opposed to WHFRP, GURPS, Fantasy HERO, or the like, without specifying any specific edition. I'd expect to figure out exactly which AD&D rules (or if someone was using BECMI) once I talked to them about the game, but whether it was 1e or 2e was less important than things like the campaign world, which optional rules, and so on. Today I would definitely distinguish 5e from 4e from pathfinder/3.5 from 1e/2e (though I might look for a '1e or 2e game') as much as I would distinguish looking for a game in GURPS vs FATE vs Hero. </p><p></p><p>Also, I'm not really losing sleep over a couple of people on a message board accusing me of lying about my own history, especially since I turned up documentation that were factually wrong in what they said I was lying about. I mentioned it as context for discussing different editions, because while their attitude (at least somewhat) makes sense now, I really can't imagine someone back in the 80s or 90s deciding that I must not have played 1st edition because I used something from 2nd edition. FYI the 1981 use was the RPGA series of modules published by TSR, so not really obscure. The Battlesystem game in 1985 also used THAC0, and that's not exactly an obscure system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7527591, member: 6976536"] To clarify the bit I forgot to say: I distinctly remember that in the 90s or early 2000s, I'd look for a "D&D" game as opposed to WHFRP, GURPS, Fantasy HERO, or the like, without specifying any specific edition. I'd expect to figure out exactly which AD&D rules (or if someone was using BECMI) once I talked to them about the game, but whether it was 1e or 2e was less important than things like the campaign world, which optional rules, and so on. Today I would definitely distinguish 5e from 4e from pathfinder/3.5 from 1e/2e (though I might look for a '1e or 2e game') as much as I would distinguish looking for a game in GURPS vs FATE vs Hero. Also, I'm not really losing sleep over a couple of people on a message board accusing me of lying about my own history, especially since I turned up documentation that were factually wrong in what they said I was lying about. I mentioned it as context for discussing different editions, because while their attitude (at least somewhat) makes sense now, I really can't imagine someone back in the 80s or 90s deciding that I must not have played 1st edition because I used something from 2nd edition. FYI the 1981 use was the RPGA series of modules published by TSR, so not really obscure. The Battlesystem game in 1985 also used THAC0, and that's not exactly an obscure system. [/QUOTE]
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