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#1 zombiegleemax Apr 13, 2005 8:13:55	http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/byBrand/dragon/v5748btpy7dxa For the HTML impaired, Paizo publishing is releasing a hardback "Best of Dragon" collection culled from 29 years of the magazine's run. I'm going to use my crystal ball and say that... 0-5% of it will be OD&D or Basic D&D (of any stripe) 6-20% of it will be AD&D 1e 25-30% will be AD&D 2e (along with the second revision of) ...with the rest being 3e.
#2 havard Apr 13, 2005 8:47:58	I suspect your Crystal ball is correct. It is interesting that they are doing this now, after all the legal trouble they had with the CD archive thing. Does this bode for a new CD archive? Maybe even a Dungeon CD archive? That would have been sweet! I already have the Dragon CD archive, so I doubt there will be much of interest for me in this collection. What I *would* have liked to see was a collection of the Voyage of the Princess Ark series. I mean a *complete* collection, not just the "essential" parts which is what we got with Champions of Mystara. Heck, even the "Letters" collumns to VoPA have been essenial to my games Still, I'll hear what people say about this collection anyway... Håvard
#3 Thailfi Apr 13, 2005 8:50:50	Best of Dragon? Silly me, I thought they had already published at least five volumes of the Best of Dragon. I still have the ones I want, so I doubt I will purchase this unless it has a substantial amount of quality 2e material. I suspect as you do that at least 50% of the material will be 3e/3.5e. There just isn't that much of a market for the old material any more. We are a dying breed. Maybe I'll be more interested if/when my group makes the conversion. Of course by the time we do get around to switching 4e will probably be out, so this stuff will be worthless to us anyway.
#4 zombiegleemax Apr 13, 2005 10:54:53	Best of Dragon? There just isn't that much of a market for the old material any more. We are a dying breed. I don't believe that for a minute.
#5 Elendur Apr 13, 2005 11:06:49	Sheesh don't hold a funeral yet! Even the creators are still kicking around. I'd imagine most old school gamers are in their 30's and 40's. We've got decades of die rolling ahead of us!
#6 caeruleus Apr 13, 2005 12:12:48	0-5% of it will be OD&D or Basic D&D (of any stripe) 6-20% of it will be AD&D 1e 25-30% will be AD&D 2e (along with the second revision of) ...with the rest being 3e. To be honest, I'm not confident that there will be that much OOP material. The webpage says, Packed with new races, classes and prestige classes, equipment, and spells as well as popular feature articles from the past That gives me the impression that each of these things will get its own section. One for races, one for classes and prestige classes, one for equipment, one for spells, and one for "popular feature articles from the past". If I'm right, that'll be at best one fifth OOP. But, hopefully, since it's the [b]BEST[/b] of Dragon, I might be wrong.
#7 realmaster Apr 28, 2005 1:53:11	I am going to check it out. I wish someone out there would make an update to the dragon archives.
#8 weasel_fierce Apr 28, 2005 2:53:04	I wont get my hopes up on this. classic D&D and AD&D is alive and well though. There are plenty of people running games, and plenty of people joining those games, and realizing that you can have fun without having attacks of opportunity ;)
#9 chatdemon Apr 28, 2005 3:54:42	I have no plans to buy it. First, even if there is some interesting old school content, I own the Dragon archive and hardcopies of the issues above 250 that had OOP (read: 2nd edition) material in them, and I don't like the idea of buying a book that's mostly 3rd edition nonsense just to get a little old school stuff I already own. Second, two words: Forty Dollars, for reprinted material. A bit much. No thanks.
#10 caeruleus Apr 28, 2005 9:33:26	Second, two words: Forty Dollars, for reprinted material. A bit much. No thanks. That's more than two words.
#11 realmaster May 05, 2005 1:47:56	hardcopies of the issues above 250 that had OOP (read: 2nd edition) material in them This is what I need to get.
#12 chatdemon May 05, 2005 3:33:35	There's not all that many to get. By the mid 270s, Dragon had gone completely 3rd edition, and even the issues leading up to that (late 260s) were heavily 3e. Old school D&D is dead in Dragon altogether by 280.
#13 zombiegleemax May 16, 2005 11:34:15	There's not all that many to get. By the mid 270s, Dragon had gone completely 3rd edition, and even the issues leading up to that (late 260s) were heavily 3e. Old school D&D is dead in Dragon altogether by 280. quoted for truth.