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I honestly don't know what my life would be like without D&D. It has been my primary leisure-time activity for the majority of my life. I got into it when I was 10 years old when my best friend gave the Mentzer Basic Set for my birthday and so it has consumed my weekends for the past 25 years.
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"There is no charge for AWESOMENESS!" - Po the Dragon Warrior
I suggest that editions be compared based on a set of six attributes, rated on a scale of 3-18. They shall be:
Awesome
Radical
Kick-ass
Sweet
Excellent
Hot-damn
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When you get to be a certain age, everything that is cool seems to be a lot of nonsensical, idiotic jibberish. The music that blares from the pimp rides makes no sense; it all sounds like a man with severe autism halfheartedly explaining human sexuality to a parrot, while in the background a dangerously unqualified Caribbean contractor rhythmically installs an automatic garage door opener. Bollocks.
--Jeffery Rowland
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Yeah, man, do I love D&D. I love pretty much every system I've played (except for the Buffy/Angel Unisystem that a friend of mine really enjoys...blargh), but there's nothin' like getting back to your roots with D&D, no matter what edition. In all fairness, I haven't PLAYED every edition, but I feel I know myself well enough to figure I'd enjoy myself, so long as I have a good group to join in.
All editions are equally awesome, but some editions are more equally awesome than others.
Best Regards
Herremann the Wise
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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder. Tad Williams
Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
Spellfire was the best game ever put to cards. The simplistic core mechanic was easily grasped by children and belied the underlying complexity of the enormous power creep metaphor for the cold war arms race and use of repeatedly recycled artwork to criticize the conformity of McCarthyism. It was a work of sheer brilliance to be enjoyed by the hobbyist gamer and appreciated by the discriminating connoisseur.
Now please buy this tupperware tub of Spellfire cards, I need the storage space for my California Raisins.
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