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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyrex" data-source="post: 6038120" data-attributes="member: 6701652">Chrome got in the way of 2Ed.The last time I played was with a group of seasoned veterans who like me came up through the ranks of the original boxed sets through 1 Ed and at the time converted to 2 Ed.  We had grown up with the game and were well into our second decade of play.  This was a time when I also became a player only, not DM.The 2 Ed when it rolled out was nice as it to me provided some clarification on many areas where we had developed house rules. And THAC0 was a nice change.  The DM ran a home grown campaign that borrowed from here, fleshed out from there, and in general it was quite fun for about a year, year and a half.And we were all making a decent living at the time, most of us working in IT.  Why I mention this is important.  It allowed us to buy the new stuff (Options: books, [class] Handbooks, etc.) as soon as it hit the shelf.  Then everything seemed to explode: new campaign settings (Birthright, Dark Sun, etc.) and even more outlier products that just muddied the waters.  Our sessions were fun at first as we would spend 30-45 minutes talking about the latest product we bought.  But eventually it became less about the immersion and more about the product; we as players would reference our Handbooks and what not and the DM soured on 'product overload'.  He was a very creative DM and the strength of our group was the interaction we had with his world-arc.  We really were focused on the role aspect, and knew the core rules inside and out.  Now our DM was adopting a blanket response like 'I'm not familiar with the Firbog as player class, and will need a week to hone up...' I lost interest and left the group.  I heard they played on for about another year, and then moved into the PC gaming realm, much the same as I did.Does 3.5 care for this?  I'm not sure.  But from my personal experiences, the core of 2 Ed made some very nice improvements over 1 Ed.  It was the never ending expansion and supplement over-kill that did us in.</blockquote>

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