Digging out that OLD RED BOOK...You know, D&D BASIC...

[Henry]

Well, I don't know about the "my way or the highway" approach, but I haven't yet met a group that wouldn't try a one-shot of something, no matter how reputedly bad... Heck, my group would probably even play games like FATAL and Spawn of Fashan if I started talking about how bad they are.

As for D&D, we played a game of AD&D recently, and my group didn't mutiny, despite being 3E fans. (Actually, one guy DID mutiny, and said he'd rather be... well, mutilated... before playing it. He let us know ahead of time he wasn't showing up, which I can respect.) But the rest of the group still had a fun time - it wasn't what they'd like to do regularly, but they wouldn't be averse to playing it again, I think.

 

[diaglo]

Okay, we're all in agreement. I'm a freak.

Super freak, myself. but i don't mind handling my books. heck, i still use them every fortnight.

diaglo "rick james style" Ooi

 

[Henry]

Okay, we're all in agreement. I'm a freak.

On the other hand, freaks who write good d20 material are harder to come by, so we'll keep you around.

I'm one of those people who loves the scent and history of an old book, as well as the scent of "newness" to a book relatively fresh from the printer, but then as the saying goes, to each his own.

 

[diaglo]

(Actually, one guy DID mutiny, and said he'd rather be... well, mutilated... before playing it. He let us know ahead of time he wasn't showing up, which I can respect.) But the rest of the group still had a fun time - it wasn't what they'd like to do regularly, but they wouldn't be averse to playing it again, I think.

i've told the same thing to some DMs i know that just can't run the newer editions.

i'd rather be drawn and quartered then suffer thru a session of them at the helm.

 

[francisca]

Well, I don't know about the "my way or the highway" approach, but I haven't yet met a group that wouldn't try a one-shot of something, no matter how reputedly bad... Heck, my group would probably even play games like FATAL and Spawn of Fashan if I started talking about how bad they are.

As for D&D, we played a game of AD&D recently, and my group didn't mutiny, despite being 3E fans. (Actually, one guy DID mutiny, and said he'd rather be... well, mutilated... before playing it. He let us know ahead of time he wasn't showing up, which I can respect.) But the rest of the group still had a fun time - it wasn't what they'd like to do regularly, but they wouldn't be averse to playing it again, I think.

Haviing played Basic/Expert, core 1E, and 3.5 in the last year, I find all editions have more in common than they have different. In my groups, it's about swords and sorcery adventuring, not so much the rules. Sure, I game with 1E and 3.5 players who say they wouldn't touch the other for love or money, but to me anyway, the rules are secondary. Not that I don't have my preferences, but I'm happy playing D&D in all of the forms I have played it.

FireLance summed it up really well back in April:
http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=1480596&postcount=32

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

Maybe I play "wrong", but in the past three decades of DMing and playing, I haven't noticed much of a difference as we moved through editions. In the end, its all the same thing, same genre. Like Star Trek.

I can watch Kirk, Picard, Sisko, or Janeway, and it still feels like Star Trek. The core story-driven elements remain unchanged. Wether Jim gets his chicken salad sandwich and coffee (with or without tribbles) from the food dispenser or Janeway orders it from the Replicator is just... details. Enterprise felt different, but I figure for me, that's like trying to play D&D using GURPS or something. Valid, but not Trek. GURPS Fantasty, Fantasy Hero: Valid, but not D&D.

OD&D/TOS, Moldovay/TNG, 1st & 2nd Ed./DS9, 3.0/Voyager, 3.5/this sesaon of Enterprise... Its all D&D/Trek to me, and doesn't feel all that different to play/watch over the last 30 or so years.

 

[FCWesel]

You guys oughta get together at the Chicago Game Day.

I'll be there! I am running SG-1 in the morning and Eden's Army of Darkness game in the afternoon.

 

[FCWesel]

Well, I don't know about the "my way or the highway" approach...

Well, go back and look at the post I made...it DID have a "" after the sentence.

...but I haven't yet met a group that wouldn't try a one-shot of something, no matter how reputedly bad...

Which is the same thing the rest of my post said.

 

[FCWesel]

i've told the same thing to some DMs i know that just can't run the newer editions.

i'd rather be drawn and quartered then suffer thru a session of them at the helm.

Thta's a GM problem though, right, not so much a edition problem?