Original sentence: "Mages" were renamed to "Wizards", "Thieves" to "Rogues", and a new class was introduced: the sorcerer.However, many fans of 1st edition AD&D who never adopted 2nd edition have migrated to 3rd edition, and (in the absence of any concrete sales or market research data from the 1980s) it seems to be the case that more people are playing D&D now than at any point in its history.It also rationalized movement and combat, though some thought these latter changes complicated matters by adding rigorous rules regarding "attacks of opportunity" and standardizing all movement onto a square grid.Many other companies have produced content for the d20 system, such as Sword and Sorcery Studios (whose products are distributed by White Wolf), AEG, and Malhavoc Press.Many purist fans of the previous editions of the game did not like changes made to the game by TSR (and later Wizards of the Coast) in these major revisions of the game.The edition removed previous editions' largely arbitrary restrictions on class and race combinations and non-human characters' levels, and included skills and feats to encourage players to customize their characters further
Edited sentence: "Mages" were renamed wizards, and a new class was introduced: the sorcerer.At the same time, many fans of 1st edition AD&D who never adopted 2nd edition have migrated to 3rd edition, and (in the absence of any concrete sales or market research data from the 1980s) it seems to be the case that more people are playing D&D now than at any point in its history.It also rationalized movement and combat, though some thought these latter changes complicated matters by adding tortuous rules regarding "attacks of opportunity" and putting all movement on a square grid.Many other companies have produced content for the d20 system, such as White Wolf, AEG, and Malhavoc Press.Many purist fans of the first two editions of the game did not like the changes made by Wizards of the Coast in the 3rd edition.The edition removed old (somewhat arbitrary) restrictions on class and race combinations, and included skills and feats to encourage players to customize their characters further