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ti'esar
2023-10-26, 03:38 PM
Does anyone remember an OOTS strip or book where someone makes this particular quip? Not asking for any particularly meaningful reason (not even antipathy towards 4E, really) - I just vaguely remembered this the other day and yet can't track it down despite a bunch of searching, and it's really nagging at me now.
Crusher
2023-10-26, 03:40 PM
Does anyone remember an OOTS strip or book where someone makes this particular quip? Not asking for any particularly meaningful reason (not even antipathy towards 4E, really) - I just vaguely remembered this the other day and yet can't track it down despite a bunch of searching, and it's really nagging at me now.

I definitely don't know off the top of my head, but it sounds like a Snips, Snails and Dragon Tails quote.
Guy Incognito
2023-10-26, 04:20 PM
It's from Haleo and Julielan, page 20. It came out in 2017, at which point 5e had been out for three years and had already more or less devoured 4e's marketshare. (Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales came out when 4e was still very much current.)
ti'esar
2023-10-27, 12:01 AM
Thanks - I'd actually skimmed that one but must have missed that page. (Which is weird in retrospect because it's Durkon's only appearance in the story and I did think it was probably something he'd said.)
Magimasterkarp
2023-10-31, 07:59 AM
TIL 4E stands for 4th Edition. Same with the other editions.

I've always wondered why nobody talks about version 3 A through D.

I don't play DnD, but I've been reading OotS for years.
Tzardok
2023-10-31, 08:13 AM
The typical abbreviations are 1e, 2e, 3.0, 3.5, 3.x (for both of them), 4e and 5e.
Bavarian itP
2023-11-01, 04:58 AM
The typical abbreviations are 1e, 2e, 3.0, 3.5, 3.x (for both of them), 4e and 5e.

And 3.p if you incorporate Pathfinder.
Wintermoot
2023-11-01, 11:30 AM
And 3.p if you incorporate Pathfinder.

and BECMI for the "basic" set of rules that was published parallel to 1st edition composed of the Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortal box sets (B.E.C.M.I) that centered around the Mystara setting (Glantri for the win!)
Metastachydium
2023-11-01, 04:09 PM
and BECMI for the "basic" set of rules that was published parallel to 1st edition composed of the Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortal box sets (B.E.C.M.I) that centered around the Mystara setting (Glantri for the win!)

What about B and BX? They don't even count anymore?
Wintermoot
2023-11-01, 06:11 PM
What about B and BX? They don't even count anymore?

well then what about the first release then? the one that required chainmail rules and had "fighting men, magic-user and cleric"?
KorvinStarmast
2023-11-02, 08:14 PM
well then what about the first release then? the one that required chainmail rules and had "fighting men, magic-user and cleric"?

Called OD&D as in Original D&D.
It was a fine game.
ti'esar
2023-11-04, 01:44 PM
Called OD&D as in Original D&D.


Hence the Book of Odad. (https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0644.html)
Goosefarble
2023-11-11, 12:42 AM
And 3.p if you incorporate Pathfinder.

I have never ever seen anyone say 3.p, is it a common abbreviation?
Tzardok
2023-11-11, 02:10 AM
I've seen it often in the 3.x forum on this site.
Metastachydium
2023-11-11, 11:32 AM
I have never ever seen anyone say 3.p, is it a common abbreviation?


I've seen it often in the 3.x forum on this site.

And it's equally common down in the PbP section.