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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SuperGnome" data-source="post: 5223943" data-attributes="member: 17297">Love these threads...Played since late summer of '87.Basic D&D from Red to Gold box2nd Ed3.x4.xI won't go on about Basic since it's exactly that.2e - I played it enough that combat got old.  It fits (probably established) my idea of what a fantasy RPG should be and reinforced what I always thought cool fantasy to be.  It was easier to envision combat since you didn't have to think in squares and what not.  It was nice and brutal.3e - Really opened up the game as far as player options, but the rules for everything approach made it a bit of a labor to run.  All the conditions were different, there were all these special circumstances, and playing only once or twice a month it was hard for me to keep it all in meh noggin.  It reinforced canon, cleaned up a lot of ambiguous mess with class progression, kept the spirit of D&D.4e - Character generation bores me to no end, and I used to really enjoy that.  They just made up new crap to throw in for whiz-bang effect.  They threw in rules, ideas and powers that just don't make sense.  It's easier to run, but it's D&D only in brand.  It's almost nothing like the game I love.  That being said, my players liked it for the powers so I've been running a 4e game since it came out.  For me, it's just sort of soulless.  I can't get the same feeling out of it.  I'll say it again, it's just a different game.  If you consider 4e, you might as well consider every other non-WotC \ TSR game out there.Pathfinder - Read through the final beta pdf.  It did clean up some things, and if I could get my players to run something non 4e, that's the way I'd go.  I wish I could stick to 3.5 as the feel is exactly what I love about D&D, but power creep from supplements kind of caused some issues.</blockquote>

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