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Old 05-17-2012, 09:50 AM   #66
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Originally Posted by speede5 View Post
I clicked on thi thread hoping to relive some good old memories. I haven't played in 20 years and I have no idea what any of you are talking about. I feel really old right now.
This summarizes the various editions of D&D:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edition...ns_%26_Dragons

3.0 and 3.5 was an open source system. Paizo published Dragon and Dungeon magazine, apart from Wizards. When Wizards decided to publish 4.0, they ended open source, and published Dragon and Dungeon themselves on-line only. Paizo decided to keep 3.5 alive by publishing Pathfinder, which is compatible with all the old 3.5 books. Pathfinder has its own campaign setting, Golarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_RPG

Pathfinder would be more familiar to old D&D players than 4.0.

I'm nostalgic for 1st edition AD&D - we did the big TSR campaign, Slave Lords, Giants, Drow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scourge_of_the_Slave_Lords
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_giants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent...s_of_the_Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_Demonweb_Pits

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