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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9261271" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>Here's a fun little pie chart I made in Excel. It shows the publication history for each edition, as a portion of the past 50 years. And just for added fun, I broke out the different "flavors" of each edition as well, such as 3E and 3.5E, 4th Edition and Essentials, and the four different Basics:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]345676[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Source: Wikipedia [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" target="_blank">1</a>] [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_rulebooks" target="_blank">2</a>]</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>5th Edition and AD&D 2E both enjoy the longest production run of any other edition, at 11 years (and counting, in the case of 5E). Unless you want to group all of the "Basic D&D" editions into a single category, that is: Holmes + Moldvay + Mentzer + Allston would give you a total of 18 years, with tons of overlap.</p><p></p><p>Anyway. 5E & 2E both have 11 years, and the second runner up is AD&D 1E at 10 years.</p><p></p><p>The shortest run was OD&D, at just 3 years--but dynamite comes in small packages; it's the edition that started it all! An argument could be made that 4E had the shortest run (of just 2 years), because a lot of folks consider 4E and Essentials to be two separate product lines. I don't; so in my not-professional-opinion, I would say that 4E had the second shortest production run, at just 4 years including Essentials.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I thought it was interesting. And I'm always looking for excuses to play around with Excel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 9261271, member: 50987"] Here's a fun little pie chart I made in Excel. It shows the publication history for each edition, as a portion of the past 50 years. And just for added fun, I broke out the different "flavors" of each edition as well, such as 3E and 3.5E, 4th Edition and Essentials, and the four different Basics: [ATTACH type="full" width="550px" alt="1707512280481.png"]345676[/ATTACH] [SIZE=2]Source: Wikipedia [[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons']1[/URL]] [[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_rulebooks']2[/URL]][/SIZE] 5th Edition and AD&D 2E both enjoy the longest production run of any other edition, at 11 years (and counting, in the case of 5E). Unless you want to group all of the "Basic D&D" editions into a single category, that is: Holmes + Moldvay + Mentzer + Allston would give you a total of 18 years, with tons of overlap. Anyway. 5E & 2E both have 11 years, and the second runner up is AD&D 1E at 10 years. The shortest run was OD&D, at just 3 years--but dynamite comes in small packages; it's the edition that started it all! An argument could be made that 4E had the shortest run (of just 2 years), because a lot of folks consider 4E and Essentials to be two separate product lines. I don't; so in my not-professional-opinion, I would say that 4E had the second shortest production run, at just 4 years including Essentials. Anyway, I thought it was interesting. And I'm always looking for excuses to play around with Excel. [/QUOTE]
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