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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 1575787" data-attributes="member: 16574">I play 1st edition AD&D exclusively (though I also have a soft spot for dialglo's favorite OD&D (1974)). A big part of the appeal is obviously nostalgic -- I played this game A LOT in the 80s and there are memories of many good times tied up in those old books and modules -- part of it is laziness and cheapness -- I don't want to pay money for a bunch of new books when I've already got all the old ones, and don't want to learn a new system when I already know the old one -- part of it is even snobbish elitism -- I don't really want to be associated with the same game as all those cretinous pimply-faced 14-year-olds I see in comic and game stores -- but just as big or bigger than all of those is the fact that I just like the way the old game works better: I like the fact that a few areas (combat, mostly) are excruciatingly detailed but pretty much everything else is left for the individual DM to make something up on the spot, that the same rules don't apply equally to PCs and NPCs and that the DM can do whatever he wants and doesn't have to answer to anybody (I know, I know, rule zero, the DM doesn't have to answer to anybody in 3E either, yadda yadda yadda), and lots and lots of other things (which I could ennumerate at great length, but won't here). This has all been discussed before at great length and with much passion and I know I'm not going to convince the 3E boosters here that my viewpoint is legitimate anymore than they're going to convince me that mine isn't, so I'll just leave it at saying that yes, there is a vocal minority of us out there still playing the earlier editions of the game, we just don't tend to congregate here at 3E central. If you want to talk with some of us about the old games -- pretend you've taken a time machine back to 1999 (2E) or 1986 (1E) and that the later editions never existed -- stop by dragonsfoot.org or The Grognard's Tavern and say hi; we're always happy to hear from fellow oop-D&D fans (as long as they leave their later-edition proseletyzing at home).</blockquote>

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