Gary Con IX: Game System duplication question

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by gizmomathboy, Jan 9, 2017.

  1. gizmomathboy

    gizmomathboy Spellbinder

    @Skip and whomever else.

    I was looking through the event catalog and noticed this for Gaming Systems:

    AD&D (1st Ed.)
    AD&D (1st Ed)
    AD&D (2nd Ed)

    D&D (1st Ed)
    D&D (3rd Ed)
    D&D (5th Ed)
    D&D (Basic)
    D&D (Original)

    I know it's a bit late to probably fix but Should all those AD&D be in the D&D format, just for consistency's sake?
     
  2. Skip

    Skip Administrator Staff Member

    D&D 1st Ed we could do without.
    We need only one AD&D 1st Ed listing.
    All the rest refer to distinct versions of the game (trust me, this is something I know a great deal about).
     
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  3. gizmomathboy

    gizmomathboy Spellbinder


    @Skip I was only really commenting on that there were (are?) 3 ways to find 1st edition. :)

    Not there there are 2 AD&D with 1st Ed (with and without a .)

    I would figure everything should collapse into:

    D&D (1st Ed)
    D&D (2nd Ed)
    D&D (3rd Ed)
    D&D (5th Ed)
    D&D (Basic)
    D&D (Original)
     
  4. dndgeek

    dndgeek Troubadour

    AD&D and D&D are two different animals and that list is really confusing. People will be thinking that D&D (1st Ed) means OE D&D and that D&D (2nd Ed) means BECMI.
     
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  5. gizmomathboy

    gizmomathboy Spellbinder

    @dndgeek I might agree except for that in the catalog there is Original, Basic, 3rd, and 5th editions. Internally consistent but maybe not consistent with community(?) convention.

    Basic will have to do for BECMI, Moldvay, etc. I guess.

    Are you volunteering to sort out Game System categories for next year? ;-)

    No, I'm not volunteering either. :)
     

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