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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 41246" data-attributes="member: 2303"><p>When I started playing 1ed, I was 13 years old. Now I'm 34. Perhaps what they mean is that they want to be 20 years younger? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>More seriously, I think 1 ed feeling is a game centered more around having fun with whatever you are doing than about filling out your world with filler text. Who cares if the Tomb of Horror made little sense - as long as you have fun playng it. Who cares about the social interactions in drow society - as long as the drow are sexy and hard to kill? And you've got to love those Erol-Otis-style high boots.</p><p></p><p>It might also be a reaction to all the Ed Greenwoodesque things of the Forgotten Realms - Elminster above all.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I don't particularily liked 1ed; it was simply the only game available at the time. But 2ed was definitely worse - it got me off DnD for ten years. I only recently came back with 3E. IMHO, 3E is much closer to a revision of the first edition than second edition ever was. Second edition was a patch, an attempt to correct problems that introduced more problems than it cured. So my take on the 1ed feel is that it is really more of a break with the second endition than with the third.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 41246, member: 2303"] When I started playing 1ed, I was 13 years old. Now I'm 34. Perhaps what they mean is that they want to be 20 years younger? :) More seriously, I think 1 ed feeling is a game centered more around having fun with whatever you are doing than about filling out your world with filler text. Who cares if the Tomb of Horror made little sense - as long as you have fun playng it. Who cares about the social interactions in drow society - as long as the drow are sexy and hard to kill? And you've got to love those Erol-Otis-style high boots. It might also be a reaction to all the Ed Greenwoodesque things of the Forgotten Realms - Elminster above all. Personally, I don't particularily liked 1ed; it was simply the only game available at the time. But 2ed was definitely worse - it got me off DnD for ten years. I only recently came back with 3E. IMHO, 3E is much closer to a revision of the first edition than second edition ever was. Second edition was a patch, an attempt to correct problems that introduced more problems than it cured. So my take on the 1ed feel is that it is really more of a break with the second endition than with the third. [/QUOTE]
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