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I think it could be geat fun -- very interesting, with plenty of role-playing opportunities. One question would be how close you want to stay to the actual history of the period, and how far are you willing to introduce fantasy elements. One possibility is to introduce an 'alternative history'...

G1-3 was indeed a 'hackfest', however you're quite wrong about most of the UK modules. In fact, in UK1 the PCs got into deep trouble if they killed anything in the crystal caves (iirc). UK2-3 had a complicated plot with many twists, as did UK4. Yes there was combat, but it wasn't anything...

I guess it might make a 'mechanical difference' if the PCs think that the monster has x ability, and proceed on that assumption, but it turns out that the monster has y ability instead. Beyond indirect mechanical consequences like that, though, I don't think there are any mechanical...

My apologies. My participation in the sniping was, well, rather immature. :o It shan't be resumed.

Well I regret, and apologize for, contributing to the derailment of this thread by getting into that argument (though, for the record, I did not attribute any mental or psychological states to Storm Raven; I simply called his tendency to do so with respect to me 'arrogant', which, admittedly...

I thought that many of the characters in the Lyonesse series were quite colourful, especially the villains. I also thought that the plots for the first two books in that series were rather strong. The conclusion to the entire series was rather satisfying as well, IMO. That's true -- everyone...

I have the book, and really love it. IMO it is one of the best 'monster books' ever produced. There are no photographs of Warhammer minis. There is one page that has a faux cover for the first part of the book called "Perilous Beasts: A Study of Creatures Fair and Foul". In that part of the...

You have a strange habit of reading into my posts things that I do not actually state. I'm not sure why you do this. It strikes me as sadly immature. Then you've drawn the wrong conclusions, or have read things into my comments that I didn't actually write. I will try to be clear on this...

1e psionics were indeed strange. However, it was an optional rule (included in the appendix).

There was no 'switch'. I never claimed that the poll was for D&D 'in general' (and if I created that impression, I apologize). My point has consistently been that the poll is meaningless as a measurement of the ENworld population as a whole because it is entirely voluntary! It is not a random...

I've already made the point that 3e is better 'balanced' than 1e. I just don't recall encountering all the problems in play with 1e that you describe. As for your other claim, that the 'flavour' of 1e is 'a direct consequence of its imbalance', I'm sorry, but that is complete rubbish. Maybe...

Actually, it wasn't the only game in town. My group also played Runequest, CoC, Stormbringer, etc. By 1984-5 we had left AD&D entirely for MERP/Rolemaster (largely because of my Tolkien obsession at the time). Well, the fighter needs fewer experience points to advance, does not have the...

Okay, here are some examples. Sorry for the delay, but I had to try to put out some more annoying fires first. :) RC D&D is a pretty simple system. However, it includes lots of options that can be added without worrying about unintended consequences for other parts of the game (at least for...

Well, I never played with UA, and agree that it appears to have ruined things. Whatever. Anyway, as I already mentioned, IME the system worked fine. I found core 1e to be adequately balanced back in the day (perhaps it was just the people I played with, I don't know). We'll just have to...

Modularity is, of course, a matter of degree. I don't think our definitions are different -- I just think you had a good understanding of the rules, and thus could anticipate, for the most part, the consequences of combining the alternatives that you did. Again: at no point have I stated that...

Without getting into technical details, polls based on representative samples of the relevant population have varying degrees of accuracy. Polls that are based on voluntary respondents have no meaningful degree of accuracy, since the respondents are self-selected with reference to the question...

Well you would be sadly incorrect, then. I will reply to Joe shortly, but I would prefer it if you would not claim to speak on my behalf. It is harder to predict the consequences of changing one variable in a highly interdependent system than it is to predict the consequences of changing...

I don't see any reason to continue arguing this point with you. Suffice to say we disagree (though I cannot comment on 2e, which I gather was quite unbalanced, esp. with the various optional books). I already answered this, and see no point in repeating myself. (And it does not 'bother me'...

I agree that we don't need an 'accurate breakdown'. We don't need a poll at all if we want to know the answer to the question "do the majority of people who post at Enworld like d20?" But the poll asked what people's preferences were with respect to the different editions. The breakdown given...

Yes, I agree that that would be an excellent idea.