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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4617200" data-attributes="member: 2209">I played and enjoyed a lot of AD&amp;D but by the end of my AD&amp;D experiences I was seriously considering switching over to Basic for my choice of rule sets.I prefer straightforward mechanics and the disparity of bonuses that high stats in AD&amp;D gave (particularly for percentile strength versus say a 16 or 14 strength) started to grate on me. Similarly I wanted the simplified damage set for weapons of basic over the idiosyncratic charts of AD&amp;D.I liked a lot of nonweaon proficiencies that came out for AD&amp;D but I was less happy with the proficiency system. I want fighters to be good with medieval weapons, whether it is a mace or a sword or a bow. AD&amp;D gave penalties for non proficiency and super specialist mechanical bonuses which were not the way I wanted fighters to be.AD&amp;D though had switch class and multiclass mechanics which were nice as well as more class (monk, assassin, illusionist, druid, paladin, ranger, etc.) and race options (Half-Orcs, Half-Elves, Gnomes, UA races) in its favor as well as more material put out for it and that I owned. AD&amp;D also had Demon Lords and Archdevils running around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4617200, member: 2209"] I played and enjoyed a lot of AD&D but by the end of my AD&D experiences I was seriously considering switching over to Basic for my choice of rule sets. I prefer straightforward mechanics and the disparity of bonuses that high stats in AD&D gave (particularly for percentile strength versus say a 16 or 14 strength) started to grate on me. Similarly I wanted the simplified damage set for weapons of basic over the idiosyncratic charts of AD&D. I liked a lot of nonweaon proficiencies that came out for AD&D but I was less happy with the proficiency system. I want fighters to be good with medieval weapons, whether it is a mace or a sword or a bow. AD&D gave penalties for non proficiency and super specialist mechanical bonuses which were not the way I wanted fighters to be. AD&D though had switch class and multiclass mechanics which were nice as well as more class (monk, assassin, illusionist, druid, paladin, ranger, etc.) and race options (Half-Orcs, Half-Elves, Gnomes, UA races) in its favor as well as more material put out for it and that I owned. AD&D also had Demon Lords and Archdevils running around. [/QUOTE]

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