Which edition(s) do you play?

[Verdande]

I want to know what posessed that guy to resurrect a rather dull, short thread that didn't have any particularly interesting information. Seriously. What was the point of this?

 

[DaveMage]

Wow. A thread from 2002. I was just a lurker back then.

Same here!

It's like talking to someone before you were born....

 

[DaveMage]

Any particular reason you skipped 4th?

Who are you talking to?

The guy who posted this in 2002?

 

[jdrakeh]

Original three booklets and Holmes Basic. OSRIC has supplanted AD&D 1e for me.

 

[jdrakeh]

Any particular reason you skipped 4th?

The poll was posted in 2002, dude.

 

[nightwyrm]

The poll was posted in 2002, dude.

Well, you can't blame the guy for just skimming through the posts. Who the heck would think that a 2002 thread would somehow get necromancy'd.

 

[Umbran]

I am well aware that a lot of the same arguments have been made over the course of edition changes past.

Yes, but some people aren't. Some of our folks are kind of new, now, and don't recognize that gamers have been arguing about roughly the same sort of things for decades. It just demonstrates that divisions existed, and people were vehement about them.

I don't buy the claim that the level of market split in the past, at least from 2E -> 3E, was on the same order as what is happening now. The same arguments being made in no way indicates that the sides making the arguments are in the same proportions.

Agreed, especially since even the original poll didn't give a real indication of such things - the polls weren't any more scientific then than now.

 

[Lanefan]

Agreed, especially since even the original poll didn't give a real indication of such things - the polls weren't any more scientific then than now.

One rather big difference:

At the end of 2e, one could argue the entire hobby needed a reboot. 3e to a large extent did just that. There was not much of a market to split.

At the end of 3.xe, no such reboot was really required. There was a relatively vibrant market - which was then split.

Lan-"from a neutral observer's point of view"-efan

 

[Dice4Hire]

The poll was posted in 2002, dude.

I missed that. Seems like the spammers are necromancing old threads recently.

 

[scruffygrognard]

I'd be curious to see what that looks like. What do you take from where?

Here you go.... LINK.