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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7899951" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Some of them are very different, though. The 1st & 2nd eds are similar to eachother and to Metamorphosis Alpha - and old-school D&D, mechanically. The 4th is somewhat like TSR D&D (it was contemporaneous with 2e AD&D), but with some hints at what 3e D&D would be like. There was no official 6th edition, per se, but there was a d20 GW published by S&SS, using d20 modern, that bore no resemblance to GW, and, in a dungeon magazine, a d20 mini-game called Omega World that <em>did</em> seem like a d20 update of GW. The 7th edition was similar to 4e D&D, but encounter-based and with (very) random chargen, and had an even whackier setting.</p><p></p><p>Then there were the no-resemblance 3rd edition, which used some variation on FASE-RIP, I think it was, and 5th, which used Alternity and was discontinued before it hit the shelves. </p><p>I question the playability of 3rd, and never got a look at Alternity in any form.</p><p></p><p>So, yeah, there's a lotta GW out there, some of it's primitive, some isn't really GW, and only a little of it (mostly stuff for 1e & 2e - and the original Metamorphosis Alpha) is at all compatible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7899951, member: 996"] Some of them are very different, though. The 1st & 2nd eds are similar to eachother and to Metamorphosis Alpha - and old-school D&D, mechanically. The 4th is somewhat like TSR D&D (it was contemporaneous with 2e AD&D), but with some hints at what 3e D&D would be like. There was no official 6th edition, per se, but there was a d20 GW published by S&SS, using d20 modern, that bore no resemblance to GW, and, in a dungeon magazine, a d20 mini-game called Omega World that [I]did[/I] seem like a d20 update of GW. The 7th edition was similar to 4e D&D, but encounter-based and with (very) random chargen, and had an even whackier setting. Then there were the no-resemblance 3rd edition, which used some variation on FASE-RIP, I think it was, and 5th, which used Alternity and was discontinued before it hit the shelves. I question the playability of 3rd, and never got a look at Alternity in any form. So, yeah, there's a lotta GW out there, some of it's primitive, some isn't really GW, and only a little of it (mostly stuff for 1e & 2e - and the original Metamorphosis Alpha) is at all compatible. [/QUOTE]
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