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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 5710066" data-attributes="member: 85555">Since the point was brought up. To clarify when each edition was in print, I had all the core books for them (excluding 4E for which I only bought the PHB and DMG). However during the 90s, I lost my 1E books. And around 2005 I foolishly tossed my 2E books to save shelving space. Last year or so I went online and restocked my 2E PHB, DMG and Monster Manual (also restocked a ton of modules and setting material). I grabbed the 1E DMG online about four years ago and hope to get the rest of the books soon so I can start another campaign (however I have had a chance to read through the PHB again online). For 3E I still have all the 3.0 and 3.5 core books as well as a bunch of splat material and setting stuff.  In terms of play: I played 1E as a player from about 1986 to 1989 (but I really had no idea how it worked). When 2E came out, we used both systems for a while. I was in the 7th grade at the time and one of our players loved the Monk and Assassin classes from 1E, so we kind of mixed and matched so we could keep the cool stuff from 1E and incorporate the newer stuff from 2E. However once the brown books started coming out (the class handbooks) we used 2E strictly on its own. When 3E came out I did the same thing for about a year, supplementing 3E with 2E material (especially setting stuff). I even ran some 2E games a couple of years in. By 2002 everything was striclty 3E, d20. When 3.5 came out, even though we hated buying all the books, we had a surge of games to learn the new system (it wasn't really a new system but many of the changes took time for us to get used to). When 4E came out I was gaming fairly regular playing 3E and starwars saga. We all bought the 4E books and played maybe 3-4 sessions before voting to go back to 3E (one person in the group wanted to go with 4E, one could go either way, and the rest wanted 3E). Since I still have the 4E books, I have tried to play on occassion at local game stores, but mostly stick to Savage Worlds and my own system in my regular gaming group these days.</blockquote>

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