This is very good looking! I would suggest that you add "D&D Essentials" to the "Fourth Age" era. I'm of two minds about the inclusion of Pathfinder. While I did giggle to see it, and I do agree that it is a spiritual successor to D20 3.5, it is also not "D&D" any more than Labyrinth Lord, OSRIC, or any of the by now dozens of retro clones, variants, and alternate (yet still technically unofficial) versions are D&D. If you include one, as the above comment shows, you open the floodgates for everyone to chime in with "my fav too!". If this were the "Ages of RPG: A Timeline" I'd be fully supportive of including every game that ever there was, however that would require a truly massive image... :-)
I would also like to suggest that you create a separate track for more people-related events like the "Gygax leaves TSR" event you included. Things like Arneson & Gygax's death, the addition & departure of several very influential people (Kuntz, Ward, Cooks Monte & Zeb, Greenwood, etc.) within TSR/WOTC, and other such events.
Also, to your "red seal" company track, you should add "Hasbro buys WOTC" (this certainly had and continues to have a great influence on the behavior of WOTC & the future of D&D.
Nice. One minor change I'd like to see is to indicate when the 3 books of AD&D were released. The MM was out for a long time, then the PHB, and then it was another long wait till the DMG was out.
If you put "Pathfinder" on there, you should probably add "Labyrinth Lord" too (as far as I know, it was the first big-name OSR game).
ReplyDeleteThis is very good looking! I would suggest that you add "D&D Essentials" to the "Fourth Age" era. I'm of two minds about the inclusion of Pathfinder. While I did giggle to see it, and I do agree that it is a spiritual successor to D20 3.5, it is also not "D&D" any more than Labyrinth Lord, OSRIC, or any of the by now dozens of retro clones, variants, and alternate (yet still technically unofficial) versions are D&D. If you include one, as the above comment shows, you open the floodgates for everyone to chime in with "my fav too!". If this were the "Ages of RPG: A Timeline" I'd be fully supportive of including every game that ever there was, however that would require a truly massive image... :-)
ReplyDeleteI would also like to suggest that you create a separate track for more people-related events like the "Gygax leaves TSR" event you included. Things like Arneson & Gygax's death, the addition & departure of several very influential people (Kuntz, Ward, Cooks Monte & Zeb, Greenwood, etc.) within TSR/WOTC, and other such events.
Also, to your "red seal" company track, you should add
"Hasbro buys WOTC" (this certainly had and continues to have a great influence on the behavior of WOTC & the future of D&D.
Pathfinder is the only clone that actually competes with (arguably beats) official D&D at its own game. That makes it special.
ReplyDeleteNice. One minor change I'd like to see is to indicate when the 3 books of AD&D were released. The MM was out for a long time, then the PHB, and then it was another long wait till the DMG was out.
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