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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9769406" data-attributes="member: 984">It's quite likely that if I were to look at all the hours of D&D I've played, the majority of those hours would be with 2e.  When I joined a D&D group (I had been playing RPGs for a few years already, but not D&D) we were playing 1e, but soon elements from 2e were being introduced into our games from the preview material (I guess that might be what you could call it? I don't really know where they found the info, likely Dragon magazine?) and we began playing 2e the day before it was released to the public.  (The dad of one of the players in the group was the TSR distributor for the whole province... which had its privileges <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)  And, it being the time of high school and then university and then early days of my career, I played a tonne of 2e all the way up until 3e was released and groups and campaigns switched over.  And I loved it.  I'm sure we used plenty of various houserules, and probably sometimes bashed in elements and rules from 1e as well, and for sure we had homebrew galore.  But through different groups and different playstyles and different campaign intents we made it work for us.  (And not saying that we can't or don't do that with more recent editions as well!)  Certainly tonnes of memories and memorable moments, great adventures, and more, not because of nor in spite of the system, but just because it was D&D and that was what we were there to do.If someone offered to spool up a game in 2e, I'd be ok and even a litte keen on giving it a whirl again, without too much fear that I might "ruin it for myself" (in the way that I have with some old shows I used to love that I "made the mistake" of watching again as an adult).</blockquote>

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