When Was Your Last 2e Experience?

[Henry]

I played 1E as little as a year ago, but 2E? Probably spring of 2000, and then we broke for an Alternity game while we waited for 3E to come out. Good times...

 

[Ahnehnois]

Does Baldur's Gate count?

The last time I played 2e D&D was late 2000. Didn't play it much; only started a year or so before 3e came out.

However, I picked up BGII recently and got into remembering how much I learned from the original-how much it shaped my idea of D&D and how many nice things didn't make it from 2e into 3e. Not saying I'd go back, but I find 2e good food for thought.

 

[Markn]

The week before the 3e PHB came out. I believe that was mid 2000.

Edit: I've been feeling nostagic lately and have been flipping through the books lately as I still use a lot of 2nd edition material for story ideas but I've been tempted to play a 2e session, just to remember what it was like...

 

[jdrakeh]

I think it was sometime in 2001. Shortly after 3e broke, I took a break from D&D, playing things like Shadowrun, Rifts, and indie fantasy games like Legendary Lives. I recently picked up the Core Rules CD and am thinking about snagging the core books to run a short series of adventures in the near future.

 

[Rel]

2e is the one edition of D&D that I've never played a single session of. So never.

My last Basic game was weekend before last. I ran it at the NC Game Day. And I had run it twice over the summer as well, including once for Piratecat and a few other ENWorlders.

I killed a BUNCH of PC's!

 

[Vegepygmy]

My last 2e experience was in 1996.

I never played Basic.

 

[Glyfair]

Played 2nd edition? I am not sure I ever played second edition. I bought it, and brought products for it. However, when second edition came around I had mostly moved away from D&D to other RPGs at the time. It took 3E to move me back.

If you stick with the title question "when was your last second edition experience?"...

About 2004-2005 we had a few last minute cancellations to our regular game. To kill some time I said I might consider running a "Birthright" campaign because I loved the setting. I didn't feel it would work well in 3.XE, so I brought out my 2nd edition books to create characters. After playing around a bit, we all decided we didn't really want to play second edition.

It was purely a rules mastery issue (I had read the rules many times, so was familiar with the,). I would have been much more comfortable with an AD&D campaign.

 

[the Jester]

I last played 2e about somewhere around 10-20 days before the 3e PH came out. We then played a test game using what rules we knew about from Eric Noah's site, and then got rolling with real 3E.

Basic, I prolly last played in about 1985.

 

[darjr]

2e?

I think it was in the 90's.

Basic? Moldvay/Encyclopedia? A couple of months ago.

 

[Remathilis]

2003. I had a DM who as adamant about not switching. We played until 3.5's release!

I quit DMing it in 2001 though.