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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 1463474" data-attributes="member: 5202">I didn't quit playing games altogether, but in college I only played 2E a few times and instead branched into a bunch of other games.  2E had gotten boring and most of my friends agreed.  Only thing we really played was a one shot of Dragon Mountain and some Dragonlance stuff.  Tinker Gnomes and Kender heh.  Maybe another 1 shot somewhere.  We played tons of other stuff tho...WEG Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Toon, Call of Cthulhu (every Saturday afternoon), SLA Industries, RIFTS, a couple of homebrews and 18 jillion different varieties of White Wolf games.  I think at one point when I was just living in town and not in school I was in 7-9 different games each week.  Man I miss that.   Some of my current group tho hadn't played anything before D&D really or had maybe played a bit of Vampire (my wife had largely LARPed and that was it).  One of our friends had only ever played Rolemaster and would actually not do as well in D&D b/c it was different dice for damage and rolling for everything else...Rolemaster is percentile for everything...plus the spell list confused her.  her husband ahd tried teaching her 2E and she got too confused.  3E she managed an got better eventually, but she was actually the one example I've seen where 3E still wans't taht eas to learn.  Its funny I've spent less money recently than I used to on gaming.  granted I got married and then our work situation turned on us but still...in middle/high school and college I bought gaming stuff frequently.  I have bought d20 product, but its been awhile since I've been able to buy much.  1st year of d20 was my prime spending area.  Now I've only been abel to afford the books I REALLY want..like AU.  Sold 2 2E PHBs and a 2E Legends and Lore for 25 (included shipping) and bought The Diamond Throne.  taht was probably the last gaming book (besides Dragon/Dungeon magazines) I'd bought since getting AU in teh first place right after GenCon. Hagen</blockquote>

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