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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8634182" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yeah, not really buying the "hawt taek"...not that that's terribly surprising.AD&D has been dominant because it has been, and for the time being is, the majority of the time that D&D has existed. OD&D was published in 1974. 3.0, the first non-TSR edition, was published in 2000. Already, just with that game, major elements had been shorn away, things like variable XP tables, descending AC, and the plethora of dice used for resolving tasks, but yes, it was still heavily conditioned by AD&D because AD&D was the only source to draw on at the time. That was 26 years after the publication of OD&D. When "5.5e" comes out, presuming they do follow through with the 2024 release date, we'll have spent only 24 years in the "there is a published non-TSR edition" period. It won't be until 2026 that WotC D&D will have existed as long as TSR D&D.After that point, you will see the dominance of TSR D&D decline, because it will be steadily less of the total. It will still have influence, but it will no longer dominate. Like the difference between Old English and Modern English; Old English now comprises only a small portion of the history of the English language. Old English began to form in about 700 AD, brought on by the Saxons. Middle English developed in the latter half of the 11th century (after the Norman conquest). Early Modern English started up around the 1400s, and Modern English started to form in the 1700s. EME and ME are pretty much 100% mutually intelligible, just with outdated definitions or obsolete words (thee/thy/thine). Middle English is difficult to read, but often still more or less intelligible. Meaning, we've had language that more closely resembles what we use today than the roots of English for just shy of a thousand years. That's at least two or three times as long as Old English existed before the Norman Conquest.You'll see a similar development in D&D. AD&D will still have influence, we'll still find connections back. But over time, between drift, new elements (consider: dragonborn are here to stay), adaptation to new audiences, etc., the game will evolve.Will TSR D&D always be part of D&D? Sure, though that's a truism. We can't erase that it happened, and it's the ancestral generation.Will TSR D&D always define what D&D can be? Absolutely not, no matter how much you would like it to.</blockquote>

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