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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philotomy Jurament" data-source="post: 3459727" data-attributes="member: 20854">Absolutely.  I think that serves to reinforce the idea that the real problem wasn't so much that 2E core rules sucked, but rather that those holding the reins at TSR had lost their way (IMO).  The stuff at the tail-end of 1E showed the same kinds of things that I disliked in 2E.  QFT.Shortly after 2E hit, I tried running a 1E game, but most people were following the pied piper of "new & improved," and weren't interested.  I ran a Basic/Expert D&D game, instead, which turned into a long-lived and very successful campaign.  It always seemed odd to me that some of the same players that turned down the 1E game had no reservations about playing in the classic D&D game.  I always wondered if it was just because it was being printed and supported.  Dunno.</blockquote>