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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 5904330" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I like 2e a lot. Much more than 4E or 3e. THAC0 really isn't that hard and the mechanics overall i find much easier to use and remember than 3E. I don't think THAC0 is coming back though. I used to be one of those people who spoke about thac0 like it was some major stumbling block. Then after a long hiatus from 2E i ran a campaign again last year. Turned out ost of te stuff i thought was going to be difficult wasn't. Ended up prefering NWPs to 3e or 4e skills. Some of the restrictions are arbitray...we just ignored many of them and imposed xp penalties (but we were doing thisback in the 90s anyways). 2e had a pretty plain core, but it easily supported optional setting stuff like ravenloft, darksun and planescape. The phb and dmg were well organized and enjoyable to read certainly could use refinement ere or there. But on the whole nostalgia isn't what makes it good for me (in fact it initially prevented me frim giving the system a second chance). It really is a good game, and lacks most of the major issues i have with 3E or 4E.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 5904330, member: 85555"] I like 2e a lot. Much more than 4E or 3e. THAC0 really isn't that hard and the mechanics overall i find much easier to use and remember than 3E. I don't think THAC0 is coming back though. I used to be one of those people who spoke about thac0 like it was some major stumbling block. Then after a long hiatus from 2E i ran a campaign again last year. Turned out ost of te stuff i thought was going to be difficult wasn't. Ended up prefering NWPs to 3e or 4e skills. Some of the restrictions are arbitray...we just ignored many of them and imposed xp penalties (but we were doing thisback in the 90s anyways). 2e had a pretty plain core, but it easily supported optional setting stuff like ravenloft, darksun and planescape. The phb and dmg were well organized and enjoyable to read certainly could use refinement ere or there. But on the whole nostalgia isn't what makes it good for me (in fact it initially prevented me frim giving the system a second chance). It really is a good game, and lacks most of the major issues i have with 3E or 4E. [/QUOTE]
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