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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5441732" data-attributes="member: 40166">TSR sold a DL1-3 as a set converted from AD&amp;D 1 to AD&amp;D 2. But if you played them as written, you'd get a TPK at the end of DL1, because dragons are much nastier in AD&amp;D 2 then AD&amp;D 1. And AD&amp;D 1 and AD&amp;D 2 are much more similar than D&amp;D 3.5 and D&amp;D 4; trying to dual-stat a D&amp;D 4 adventure for D&amp;D 3.5 could be very challenging, and even mechanically done right, it could have the feel of D&amp;D 4 in D&amp;D 3.5; most D&amp;D 3.5 games don't have a surfeit of dragonborn running around, for example. And one of the comments that I've heard a couple times from old school (but not ancient school) gamers is that they played AD&amp;D and never gave Basic D&amp;D a first look, because who wants to play Basic instead of Advanced? You're going to have two games, but you're going to have a lot of people playing AD&amp;D and ignoring Basic, either because nobody plays Basic in their area or for the reason given above. If you do have a lot of people playing Basic, it may be because Basic is the better game... then you've got to wonder why they're supporting Advanced. Changing their main money maker only every ten years isn't likely; these edition changes seem to have profitable for Hasbro.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 5441732, member: 40166"] TSR sold a DL1-3 as a set converted from AD&D 1 to AD&D 2. But if you played them as written, you'd get a TPK at the end of DL1, because dragons are much nastier in AD&D 2 then AD&D 1. And AD&D 1 and AD&D 2 are much more similar than D&D 3.5 and D&D 4; trying to dual-stat a D&D 4 adventure for D&D 3.5 could be very challenging, and even mechanically done right, it could have the feel of D&D 4 in D&D 3.5; most D&D 3.5 games don't have a surfeit of dragonborn running around, for example. And one of the comments that I've heard a couple times from old school (but not ancient school) gamers is that they played AD&D and never gave Basic D&D a first look, because who wants to play Basic instead of Advanced? You're going to have two games, but you're going to have a lot of people playing AD&D and ignoring Basic, either because nobody plays Basic in their area or for the reason given above. If you do have a lot of people playing Basic, it may be because Basic is the better game... then you've got to wonder why they're supporting Advanced. Changing their main money maker only every ten years isn't likely; these edition changes seem to have profitable for Hasbro. [/QUOTE]

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