AD&D, looking backwards, and personal experiences

[Croesus]

Nevermind

 

[GX.Sigma]

RA - I don't know who pee'd in your wheaties, but your post is condescending and disrespectful.

So was yours. I hope you realize that.

 

[thecasualoblivion]

For what it's worth, I'd say on average I enjoyed playing Curse of the Azure Bonds on my Apple IIgs as much as playing real life AD&D. On average because real life AD&D had more highs and more lows.

 

[am181d]

Why is the original poster comparing a game written in the 1970s with games written in the 1990s?

2e came out in what? 1989?

 

[Remathilis]

Why is the original poster comparing a game written in the 1970s with games written in the 1990s?

2e came out in what? 1989?

Correct. 1989.

Its kinda like comparing Tekken to Pong and complaining about the latters graphics...

 

[pemerton]

The mid-80s Oriental Adventures for AD&D was the first RPG book I encountered that showed me how to get what I wanted out of a fantasy RPG (Moldvay Basic promised, with its foreword about liberating the land from the dragon tyrant, but in my experience didn't deliver).

 

[Croesus]

So was yours. I hope you realize that.

Agreed. My apologies.

 

[Steely_Dan]

Not backwards; sideways, maybe, all editions are played and supported (and expanded etc).

 

[Mishihari Lord]

Seriously? AD&D was the pinnacle. I had more fun with it than any system before or since. It's all been downhill from there.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Why is the original poster comparing a game written in the 1970s with games written in the 1990s?

2e came out in what? 1989?

Yes, 89. Though, really, it wasn't fundamentally different from 1e, just a little cleaner. I too wonder why the OP's exposure AD&D in the 90s was with the prior decade's ed...? Possibly his group included an AD&Der who still had all his old stuff and had never updated?