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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goblinoid Games" data-source="post: 4852983" data-attributes="member: 47388">I actually really like 2e. I played a hell of a lot of it back in the day. I bought nearly all of the books for it up until around Planescape came out, and I never did buy the option books.IMHO the early core stuff is only slightly tweaked from first edition, with the main difference being that a lot of stuff was cut from the DM guide. I think the "feel" was different, mainly in art style and due to eliminating demons/devils, but mechanically it is basically the same game. I just couldn't get into it anymore though once the art started to shift in later books, and the option books came out. Things got too "weird" for me. So at that point I pretty much stopped buying WotC material. I remember reading in Dragon that 3e was supposed to be as compatible with 2e as 2e was with 1e...but obviously design goals changed, because when I bought and cracked open the 3e books I was so alienated by the presentation and new mechanics that I pretty much abandoned D&D for a long time. Then finally I went back to the old editions and the rest is history.</blockquote>