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The adventures. For various reasons AD&D had my favorite modules.

I'd buy reprints of classic AD&D books and modules in a heartbeat, so long as they aren't tinkered with too much. Proper indexes and the inclusion of errata would be great but I wouldn't want other changes.

In 3rd edition, you would use relevant skill checks (such as profession: engineer along with profession: carpenter). In AD&D you would use a secondary skills (from page 12 the DMG) or non-weapon proficiencies.

This discussion got me thinking about a recently published game that fit this description... Aces & Eights We had a blast making up characters but found that the simulationist aspects of combat mired the game down.

I'd go with I.C.E.'s Rolemaster or MERP games here. I loved the options and room for growth that were built into chargen. Unfortunately both games were too bogged down by their rules to play for an extended campaign (at least they were back in the mid 80s when I was an early teen trying to...

Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not WotC's Chris Perkins. I'm just a teacher with the same name and too much time on his hands.

Just so you know, I'm not THE Chris Perkins who works for WotC... I'm just a geek who happens to share his name. Glad you enjoy my Castles & Crusades + D&D houserules!

Your Google-fu is strong miscreationist!

The way that I ran 2nd edition for a while felt old-school... it was very much a free-form, sandbox type of game. That said I don't think that the system was an old-school system, especially once class kits, racial splatbooks, Skills & Powers and Combat & Tactics are factored in.

I'd go with a Search check. If you have a good Search skill, you'd know the best places to hide stuff.

Traveller and Castles & Crusades

I'm currently playing Castles & Crusades, Traveller, D&D 3.5, Deadlands, Star Wars (d6) and Call of Cthulhu.

I'm going out on a limb and giving you an answer of "neither". I'd say you should go with Castles & Crusades. It is simple, flexible and made to be houseruled. If you want to invest your time into "making the game your own" then there is no better game than C&C.

If WotC is worried about piracy, could they at least re-release previous edition books and modules through Lulu? The books would be more expensive BUT it would cost WotC next to nothing and I'm sure there would be people out there who would jump at the chance to buy those books (again). Green...

I will NEVER follow a subscription model in order to play a game. I would consider subscribing for supplemental materials but, even then, I'd want hardcopies or downloadable content. WotC looks to be moving further and further away from a business model that I could possibly support, which is...

4th edition doesn't work for me because it represents a major shift in how D&d is marketed, and breaks from the years of tradition that I value. In AD&D, 2nd Edition AD&D and 3.X, the 3 core books presented the complete rules for the game. Any other books were optional. With 4th edition the...

I had high hopes for Pathfinder but, so far, it is WAY too complicated... basically, it's a ramped up version of 3.5. The changes I've seen haven't adequately addressed the woes of multiclassed casters, endless stacking rules or the headaches of high-level play. I've muddled through 3.X for...

The ONLY business I've been giving WotC lately has been my purchase of back-catalog pdfs from Paizo. Now that they've done this, they've completely lost me as a customer. Way to go Wotc!

I'd hate this!!!! You wind up having no access to the documents once the subscription ends and, most likely, couldn't print the materials you were "renting" while subscribing. Then again I don't like MMO subscriptions or the DDI service either.

True. I should have been thinking in terms of online retailers like FRPGames and RPG Shop. Does this "put the screws" to them if they want to sell WotC products? If so WotC looks like a toxic entity to deal with.