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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3392057" data-attributes="member: 4937">As far as I can tell, the play experience between 1st edition and 3rd edition hasn't changed.  To prove this to your satisfaction, I suggest you play with inexperienced players.  I don't believe that there is such a thing as a definitive 1st edition experience.  I played with at least a half dozen DM's and all of them produced a slightly different game with a slightly different experience.  The experience produced by 3rd edition is well within the range of experiences produced by 1st edition.Frankly, I find the notion that the 1st edition rules are superior to the current generation to be ridiculous in the extreme.  They are superior only in as much as 1st edition DM's were compelled to rely on thier judgement more often because there were huge gaps anomolies and problems with the rules, and if they were good DM's this produced a superior experience and if they weren't it didn't.  If you want to reproduce that experience, rely on your judgement in preference to the RAW.  The result may or may not be better than the RAW depending on your judgement.  First edition was superior only in the sense that DM's were free to experiment because no one told them what was balance or how many enounters would produce what ammount of treasure or how many levels of advancement, and this too produces a superior experience under a good DM and a questionable one otherwise.  In other words, if you want a 1st edition experience with the 3rd edition rule set, use your bloody imagination and don't worry about whether your characters have enough treasure for thier CR or even if they are capable of facing monsters of a particular CR.  None of that is important anyway.  What's important is that everyone has fun.</blockquote>

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