All editions of D&D: What do you like?

[pawsplay]

Graph paper! I used to be obsessed with the stuff. I should take more time on maps for my Pathfinder game.

 

[clip]

Is that the old... I can mutilate your character anytime I want power... thats on my good riddance list.

That's not something I recognise. What I recognise is a monster type that characters fear. All other types of damage can be remedied very easily. Only disintegrate and petrification are vaguely equivalent.

 

[Garthanos]

That's not something I recognise. What I recognise is a monster type that characters fear. All other types of damage can be remedied very easily. Only disintegrate and petrification are vaguely equivalent.

Encourages DM versus Players mentality... You know the levels you just spent 20 hours game play getting for your character rip... they are gone because of a single die roll... sorry...

 

[pawsplay]

Encourages DM versus Players mentality... You know the levels you just spent 20 hours game play getting for your character rip... they are gone because of a single die roll... sorry...

I'm not sure how you pin the caprices of fate on a "versus Players" mentality.

 

[Garthanos]

I'm not sure how you pin the caprices of fate on a "versus Players" mentality.

It wasnt fate that chose to use the monster or even the table with that random monster on it.... hiding behind dice doesnt work you are the DM and you just threw away the players time (at least by some perspective).

And sorry for diverging topic on this... further discussion ought to be forked.

 

[Desdichado]

I actually have kinda a love-hate relationship with D&D. Sometimes the blatant D&Disms really grate on my nerves and I have to step away from them, but then when I've been gone for a while, I start to miss playing D&D.

I think the things I like best about it as a game are 1) No specific ties to any particular campaign setting, 2) easy to find players, and 3) metric buttloads of material.

#3 really helps with #1; I can sub stuff in and out to vary the feel of the game pretty easily.

 

[The Shaman]

Dungeons.

The only draw which D&D holds for me are those deep, sprawling labyrinths filled with monsters and treasure to explore.

 

[Mistwell]

I don't miss anything.

You sure seem to have missed the question posed in the thread

"Looking at all editions of D&D, from OD&D to Basic and Advanced, to 3e, to 4e... what are the common elements to all of them that you really like? "

 

[pawsplay]

Some people cannot comprehend the love.

 

[Betote]

Natural 20's (and anything that has to do with rolling lots of odd-shaped multicolored dice).

The weird, WTF creatures: gorilla cockroaches, giant floating eyes, brain-eating humanoid octopuses, carnivorous jellies... What's not to like?

The iconic character of the whole: dungeons, clerics, elves, wizards, artifacts, spells, alignments...

The excuse it gives me to meet my friends and have some laughs with (sometimes at) them.

The shared experience when I talk with other geeks about our adventures in the Temple of Elemental Evil, Castle Ravenloft, Undermountain, Tomb of Horrors, Age of Worms, Tomb of Abysthor or Rise of the Runelords.