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<blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 5667944" data-attributes="member: 4682">My reasons for looking for an itemized list of differences comes out of a nostalgic urge. I was a pre-teen to teen when I played 1st then 2nd edition.I didn't have a great care for the differences between the systems, nor the reasons for the changes made to the rules. Looking back distantly it felt like the two were nearly unchanged, practically interchangeable.I had great times playing 1st and 2nd editions of the games. I have more material around my game room from those eras than I do for 3rd and 4th editions combined.I've played tons of 3rd edition, and have just dipped my toes into 4th edition. I appreciate many advancements made to the game brought by both.I think all of old-timers might have a vision of our own perfect retro system. I had great playing 2nd edition as well as 1st, I can see that 2nd put a lot of polish onto 1st and could have deserved a bit more polishing.I think my own &quot;perfect retro&quot; would be a Core of 2nd edition, restoring a some 1st edition-isms. Entirely informed by some 3rd and 4th edition unified mechanics.The &quot;101&quot; list gives me a lot to go on to restore some missed 1st edition-isms into a retro-plus 2nd edition kitbash.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AdmundfortGeographer, post: 5667944, member: 4682"] My reasons for looking for an itemized list of differences comes out of a nostalgic urge. I was a pre-teen to teen when I played 1st then 2nd edition. I didn't have a great care for the differences between the systems, nor the reasons for the changes made to the rules. Looking back distantly it [B]felt[/B] like the two were nearly unchanged, practically interchangeable. I had great times playing 1st and 2nd editions of the games. I have more material around my game room from those eras than I do for 3rd and 4th editions combined. I've played tons of 3rd edition, and have just dipped my toes into 4th edition. I appreciate many advancements made to the game brought by both. I think all of old-timers might have a vision of our own perfect retro system. I had great playing 2nd edition as well as 1st, I can see that 2nd put a lot of polish onto 1st and could have deserved a bit more polishing. I think my own "perfect retro" would be a Core of 2nd edition, restoring a some 1st edition-isms. Entirely informed by some 3rd and 4th edition unified mechanics. The "101" list gives me a lot to go on to restore some missed 1st edition-isms into a retro-plus 2nd edition kitbash. [/QUOTE]

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