Which Edition(s) do you regularly play?

[Desdichado]

Interesting to see that young pretender from WoTC, 3.5e, threatening Paizo's venerable 900 lb gorilla Pathfinder for the status of most-played game...

If you combine 4e and 4e Essentials, I think they still come in front of Pathfinder.

Depending on the point in time at which you look at the poll results, I suppose.

EDIT: Whoops, sorry! I meant 3.5 + 3.0. 4E + Essentials is still slightly lower.

Although, curiously, all three are really quite close, at least in t his poll. I'm not sure what options you need to pick to get an idea of the relative size of the OSR too, but that goes back to my original claim that the OSR, the d20, the 4e and the Pathfinder crowds are all on the same order of magnitude... if not necessarily of roughly actually equivalent size.

 

[Virel]

1.5 AD&D Hybrid - core 1e AD&D w/some 2e AD&D added and some house rules. However, the short version is it's our version 1e AD&D adapted to our groups taste. Some fun rules are added and some boring stuff that didn't add much removed.

The customized Greyhawk-Celene setting goes back to our 1981 start with D&D however the game world has changed is very much unique to our game. The very high level play held up into the 30+ level with PC's played from the ground up. In 2004, I started track the rewards for moronic play and it's 106 player character deaths to date.

Plays & DM's better, faster, cleaner and meaner than anything WotC or Paizo had or likely will release or can design.

 

[DaveMage]

Does that mean that WotC could take back the top spot if they spent the next 2 years prior to 5E dual statting or otherwise supporting both 3.5 and 4E.

Nah - they should just go ahead and support Pathfinder.

(It's open, after all.)

 

[the Jester]

Apparently there's some debate on the subject (recent example).

IME- and I admit, I didn't look at your link, but this holds true every time I have engaged in the debate on this one- the folks who call Essentials a revised edition tend to be those who haven't actually played in a game that uses the "4e classic" stuff and Essentials stuff together.

In contrast, 3.0 and 3.5 aren't meant to work together; one is explicitly a replacement for the other.

 

[Ahnehnois]

IME- and I admit, I didn't look at your link, but this holds true every time I have engaged in the debate on this one- the folks who call Essentials a revised edition tend to be those who haven't actually played in a game that uses the "4e classic" stuff and Essentials stuff together.

In contrast, 3.0 and 3.5 aren't meant to work together; one is explicitly a replacement for the other.

Couldn't the same be said of Skills and Powers (I'll admit this is before my time so I don't know for sure)? Seems like the OP wanted to subdivide a lot. This poll could be done with just four options. It also seems to me that given the split in votes between 4e and Essentials, at least some people felt the distinction was meaningful (or they would have all just voted 4e and treated Essentials as part of it).

 

[S'mon]

If you combine 4e and 4e Essentials, I think they still come in front of Pathfinder.

Depending on the point in time at which you look at the poll results, I suppose.

EDIT: Whoops, sorry! I meant 3.5 + 3.0. 4E + Essentials is still slightly lower.

Although, curiously, all three are really quite close, at least in t his poll. I'm not sure what options you need to pick to get an idea of the relative size of the OSR too, but that goes back to my original claim that the OSR, the d20, the 4e and the Pathfinder crowds are all on the same order of magnitude... if not necessarily of roughly actually equivalent size.

As of this moment the poll is showing me
3e (9) + 3.5e (43) = 52
Pathfinder 54
So my point stands, a strong challenge.

4e (27) + 4e Essentials (19) = 46, but I know I picked both as I run a game that combines both, and I'd expect other people did so also. I expect a few people clicked both 3e & 3.5e but 3.5e alone has a strong showing, and I'm sure there is less overlap than with 4e and 4E.

 

[S'mon]

I'm not sure what options you need to pick to get an idea of the relative size of the OSR too, but that goes back to my original claim that the OSR, the d20, the 4e and the Pathfinder crowds are all on the same order of magnitude... if not necessarily of roughly actually equivalent size.

I expect you're right. It seems well established that Pathfinder gets more play than 4e but the two groups are of similar size; I expect ENW skews a bit more OSR than the general public but Old School games are certainly popular, I've had no trouble getting Labyrinth Lord players at the London D&D Meetup along with my 4e D&D and Pathfinder Beginner Box games. I'm always a bit surprised to see how hugely popular 3.5e (distinct from Pathfinder) is though, despite there being plenty of survey evidence of this; hence my comment.

 

[Drowbane]

D&D 3.5
Pathfinder is not an edition of D&D, it is House Ruled (and very well marketed ) 3.5

 

[the Jester]

Couldn't the same be said of Skills and Powers (I'll admit this is before my time so I don't know for sure)?

No- using the Players Option stuff pretty much replaces a lot of the core game in 2e. Subabilities, custom-built clerics that out-fight straight fighters and out-mage straight wizards while out-healing straight clerics- the PO stuff was, IMHO, the nadir of 2e as far as balance goes. Having run a game with a couple PO characters alongside (existing) 2e pcs, I was aghast at how far apart their effectiveness was.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Pathfinder is not an edition of D&D, it is House Ruled (and very well marketed ) 3.5

No- using the Players Option stuff pretty much replaces a lot of the core game in 2e. Subabilities, custom-built clerics that out-fight straight fighters and out-mage straight wizards while out-healing straight clerics- the PO stuff was, IMHO, the nadir of 2e as far as balance goes. Having run a game with a couple PO characters alongside (existing) 2e pcs, I was aghast at how far apart their effectiveness was.

Guess you just can't satisfy everyone no matter how you parse these polls.

He also separated out 3.0 and 3.5, which are definitely the same edition.