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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Longspeak" data-source="post: 7960126" data-attributes="member: 7019284">I transitioned into 2nd edition when it came out, and at first I loved it. But 2nd edition was also what ultimately sent me looking for other games to play. I was still young, not super experienced. With the three core books... well, two books and a massive binder... I had a lot of fun. But right away, I had some issues.I was heavy into Forgotten Realms at the time. The transition screwed the setting up, and I wasn't experienced enough to simply reject the metaplot (at I was able to do later with Mage editions). It made me feel at the time I'd wasted all that money (and as a college student working babysitting jobs and minimum wage fast food jobs, it was a LOT of money) on supplements that were now worthless.  Then came all the Complete xxx books, with hundreds of new options, and I felt obliged to let players pick and choose from among all these official sources, but it was all too much.Now, what? 30 years later? A lot more experienced. But at the time, the growth in complexity sent me looking elsewhere. I began to branch into White Wolf (Vampire was kinda interesting, Werewolf was okay, and then Mage blew me away!), into what today would be call indie (Legendary Lives, anyone?), and back to my shelves for gems from prior days like Star Wars and The Fantasy Trip. I cast about for games with interesting rulesets, and left D&D behind entirely.  Those books ended up in a box and later sold at my convention's local auction.(Ironically, I ended up falling in love with a WotC game, Everway, only to have WotC throw the game under the bus so they could buy D&D. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )That marks the last of my serious D&D days until about 18 months ago when I came back for 5th Edition.</blockquote>

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