Monday, September 14, 2009

Pop Quiz!

Tell me why this chart is wrong.

20 comments:

  1. Well, it ignores the possibility that one's favourite version isn't out-of-date (either being 4E or 3.5 as supported by Pathfinder).

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  2. I don't get it, it seems to make sense, though intelligence was my IRL dump stat.

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  3. The "out of date" and "retroclone" players are playing the same thing?

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  4. The "my hopelessly out of date version of D&D" and the "free retro-clones" meet, implying that there are an increasing number of free games that are basically out of date D&D clones?

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  5. That your D&D (red) line travels backwards in time which, by definition, means that at some point it was a retro-clone of itself.

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  6. My favorite part is where the players of the current version travel back in time, creating a paradox, where more and less players are gaming at the same time.

    Some of them exploded.

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  7. It's accurate but incomplete.

    As soon as the the red line gets within LOS of the green line, roll a wisdom check for the red line once per year. If the red line succeeds on its wisdom check and notices the green line coming, it will (roll d6):

    1-stab it
    2-sue it
    3-buy it
    4-re-clone it
    5-go back and publish all the old books with expensive new annotations attached
    6-Roll twice

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  8. @deadlytoque: that's only true at time T for any given version. At some later time T + x, your version is out-of-date, for all versions.

    @Christian: the vertical axis is # of players, not editions.

    @Al: This is what I agree with.

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  9. it's the colors. you got the colors wrong.

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  10. Only C-tards hang out on ENWorld, plotting their one-true-way campaign!

    That's what the dice told me, anyway.

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  11. It assumes I care about D&D....

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  12. I wanna cast a spell...

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  13. I agree that there is nothing wrong with your chart. It appears absolutely accurate. So accurate that I finally created a blogspot account. Dang, more things for me to write!

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  14. Anonymous9:37 PM

    You aren't allowed to list "favorite versions" and "free retro-clones" on the same chart. Why can't you just admit that they have nothing in common and don't belong in the same discussion?

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  15. You're wrong Jeff. Just wrong. Wrong doesn't need a reason, but I'll give you one random one anyways - "Jeff Rients is only a shill for Chartmaster, don't believe a word that wishy-washy Shatner-tard says."

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  16. Ad DeadGod said, it reveals that WotC has Time Travel technology and now they will have to kill you for that.

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  17. The retroclone line will probably flatten out some time after its short, sharp rise, becoming an inverted mirror of the out of date edition line.

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  18. That 95% of statistics are made up, especially the squiggily ones.

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  19. Hitting the Random Post button got me here. I like how Zak's prediction became reality.

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