This thread is eternal!Woah. What a weird thread to necro.
I guess someone made their resurrection and system shock checks!
This thread is eternal!
I don't know what it says about the edition itself or our nostalgia regarding it, but this thread gets necro'd more often than any of my other Edition Experience surveys.
True, but at least it's not that other thread.This thread ... definitely brings up thoughts.
Wait -- which thread is that? I don't know what the heck is going on here half the time....True, but at least it's not that other thread.
For me? Because we freely threw out any of the rules from 1E we didn't understand or like, which mostly left us with 5E!Replying to my own post because I'm a weirdo.
One of the things that struck me abotut 5E early on was how much playing it felt like how I remember playing AD&D 1E felt like. I couldn't explain to you why that is. Maybe it's the complexity level, or the robustness and soundness of the system as a whole.
Has anyone else had this experience, or can anyone explain how they're similar?
I'd call it simple because we just ignored the convoluted stuff. What we ended up with was simple.Yeah I wouldn't call 1e simple.
I think the thing with 1e is that the people who've been playing it for 35-40 years or more have long since house ruled whatever problems they had with the game and they're familiar with it. While 1e is complex and convoluted in core, it has fewer add-ons than its successors too so there's not as much added to it, especially if a group doesn't like the additional material and ignores it. And how many people really played a "pure" 1e game too? There was a lot of mixing with D&D back in the early and mid-80's. That didn't really fall off until the 2e days, and probably mostly because D&D stopped being effectively published as a separate line. I think that's when players started playing only a single edition, because that's all that was available.