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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 9664866" data-attributes="member: 25619">I’m involved with 4 groups (2 as DM, 2 as a player).3 of the groups play D&D 3.5e, the last 5e 2024 (switched from 2014 on Saturday).Maybe the difference is in how players are recruited?  I’ll tell how my groups were recruited.Group 1 (I’m the DM, on email, going since 1998): 2 players I worked with (last of the 1998 originals, now married to each other), 1 player I gamed with in college who heard about the game and asked to join at our 15th college reunion (2006), 2 people I met playing 5e in GenCon Online (2020) and asked (they are also a married couple).  Players and I live in 4 different states.  Everyone has played multiple editions and likes 3.5e (for itself or as close to AD&D).Group 2 (I’m the DM, spun off on email in 2025 from the 1998 campaign): 1 player who was my wife’s college friend and is now my Xbox and chatting about baseball everyday friend, 1 player who is his best friend from college, 1 player who I met when his wife was my coworker and who played in an earlier campaign I ran in 3.5e, 1 player who was my coworker when we became friends, 1 player who is my sister-in-law.  Players and I live in 4 different states.  Only one has played a different edition, only two have had DM’s other me.  Unless we count BG3, which all of them have played - one is often confused when things aren’t like BG3.Group 3 (my niece is DM, on Zoom): her parents, brother, my wife and I, and the same sister-in-law from campaign #2.  Her dad and I have played everything from AD&D on, she has played 3.5e & 5e, while the others have only has me of my niece as DM and only 3.5e.  Everyone but her mom and my wife has played BG3.  We live in 2 states (3 metro areas).Group 4 (Ron is the DM, 5e on Discord, with Roll 20 + D&D Beyond): 1 player he went to high school with, me who was recruited by classified  at work in 2001 (Ron taught me 3e & 4e), another player from my job who joined before I did, and 2 guys I don’t know except in gaming.  We live in 2 states (where Ron was born and returned to, and where he was in 2001) and we’ve all played multiple editions.  Ron’s game is currently Star Wars themed Ravenloft. Did I expect that? No. Do I complain? Also no.I haven’t formed a non-D&D group since about 1994.  But  non-current editions?  I was only using the current one from 2001-2007. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have a stash of enough 3.5e PHB’s to go around for live play.For  Ron’s 5e game, we use D&D Beyond.  I haven’t bought 2024 physical books.</blockquote>

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