Edition Love (not War)
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Just a few things...
OD&D: Never played but enjoyed its progeny
AD&D: My first love! Amazing adventures and endless nights of gaming. Wonderfully nostalgic memories of gaming and friendship.
AD&D 2E: Planescape!
3 and 3.5: Brought me back to gaming after 8 years away. I loved the new rules and feel of the game, and how it brought back my love of gaming. My great years of DMing.
4E: Refused to play but just picked up the red box yesterday. Brought back great memories and made me put aside my biases. Gonna pick up the first few Essential books and give it a go.
I love D&D
OD&D: Never played but enjoyed its progeny
AD&D: My first love! Amazing adventures and endless nights of gaming. Wonderfully nostalgic memories of gaming and friendship.
AD&D 2E: Planescape!
3 and 3.5: Brought me back to gaming after 8 years away. I loved the new rules and feel of the game, and how it brought back my love of gaming. My great years of DMing.
4E: Refused to play but just picked up the red box yesterday. Brought back great memories and made me put aside my biases. Gonna pick up the first few Essential books and give it a go.
I love D&D
Truth Seeker
Adventurer
As once said, "Play the games you like"...thus doing so, edition Wars are soooo a passing wind.
El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Stand your ground in the face of the Edition Wars...and they will, break like the wind...
megamania
Hero
I'll address them as I played them-
2nd ed
Its where it all started for me (Sept 1989) My first character didn't even get finished when he became a ghoul and my own party was forced to killl me.
My first DM experience as I ran Darksun for three years.
2nd ed Player Options Rules
Enjoyed thourghly though several players characters all seemed the same.
1st ed
More than anyhing else- I will remember this edition for the freindships I started and still maintain.
Homebrews that mixed / matched 1st and 2nd
Worked well. Had a good time here also.
3rd ed
Moved our 1st ed game into third. I found new awe and wonder within the game once more.
3.5 ed
EBERRON!!!!!!!! In case you didn't notice.... I like EBERRON!!!!!!!
4e
Hoping to finally try it out this November at Carnage in the Mountains gamecon in Vermont
3.75 aka Pathfinder
I like the new revisions of the familiar.
Like some folks have already said- Love that DnD.
2nd ed
Its where it all started for me (Sept 1989) My first character didn't even get finished when he became a ghoul and my own party was forced to killl me.
My first DM experience as I ran Darksun for three years. 2nd ed Player Options Rules
Enjoyed thourghly though several players characters all seemed the same.
1st ed
More than anyhing else- I will remember this edition for the freindships I started and still maintain.
Homebrews that mixed / matched 1st and 2nd
Worked well. Had a good time here also.
3rd ed
Moved our 1st ed game into third. I found new awe and wonder within the game once more.
3.5 ed
EBERRON!!!!!!!! In case you didn't notice.... I like EBERRON!!!!!!!
4e
Hoping to finally try it out this November at Carnage in the Mountains gamecon in Vermont
3.75 aka Pathfinder
I like the new revisions of the familiar.
Like some folks have already said- Love that DnD.
pawsplay
Legend
OD&D - A keen old fantasy wargame that was the first modern RPG. The father of all "fantasy wargames," from GURPS to Pathfinder to Blue Rose.
Basic D&D (Red Box) - Because Bargle managed to make such a memorable impression as a posthole in such a few pages. Also... "Aleeeeeeeeeeeena!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Very well written; the beginnings of what is essentially the best-written version of D&D ever published, in a technical and aesthetic sense.
AD&D - Frankly, I like Roman numerals. Also, you could play elven fighters. Weird and quirky art, including cartoons. Gygax's design notes sort of floated in between sections of rules. Really weird outer planes.
A&D 2e - Cutomizable "Rogues." Specialty priests.
D&D 3e - A version of D&D unfettered by stubborn rationales for concepts that limited how or what you could play. Great for worldbuilding. Unified mechanics. Improved "prociciencies" system, i.e. skills and feats.
3.5 - Fewer special-case skills. Good class balance. Even more unified systems.
4e - I like the PC/monster split and it's cool to see that come back. Unified attack and defense progressions across class, with less variation from the mean in primary modes of attack and defense. Attractive Red Box ripoff boxed set. Defined beginning-middle-end support cycle for published worlds.
Basic D&D (Red Box) - Because Bargle managed to make such a memorable impression as a posthole in such a few pages. Also... "Aleeeeeeeeeeeena!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Very well written; the beginnings of what is essentially the best-written version of D&D ever published, in a technical and aesthetic sense.
AD&D - Frankly, I like Roman numerals. Also, you could play elven fighters. Weird and quirky art, including cartoons. Gygax's design notes sort of floated in between sections of rules. Really weird outer planes.
A&D 2e - Cutomizable "Rogues." Specialty priests.
D&D 3e - A version of D&D unfettered by stubborn rationales for concepts that limited how or what you could play. Great for worldbuilding. Unified mechanics. Improved "prociciencies" system, i.e. skills and feats.
3.5 - Fewer special-case skills. Good class balance. Even more unified systems.
4e - I like the PC/monster split and it's cool to see that come back. Unified attack and defense progressions across class, with less variation from the mean in primary modes of attack and defense. Attractive Red Box ripoff boxed set. Defined beginning-middle-end support cycle for published worlds.
Tallifer
Hero
1. 1st edition AD&D: it was my first roleplaying game. The Dungeon Master's Guide was my favourite part: never got tired of reading it. Every other roleplaying game after that was measured by how well it improved on AD&D.
2. 2nd edition AD&D was a brief acquaitance. (I saw the books a few times; I played it once: those were my wilderness years for gaming.) I did like the non-weapon proficiencies.
3. 4th edition D&D: it has been my re-entry to D&D. I read through the entire Player's handbook in one weekend, and I was extremely impressed by the elegant and consistent system. Since then I have loved playing it for a year: I now have one 11th level Warlord. The combats are fascinating and more than make up for the weak roleplaying of my current group.
(Never really experienced Old D&D, except a brief one month on-line play-by-post thing. Never even heard of 3rd edition until I first encountered 4th edition.)
2. 2nd edition AD&D was a brief acquaitance. (I saw the books a few times; I played it once: those were my wilderness years for gaming.) I did like the non-weapon proficiencies.
3. 4th edition D&D: it has been my re-entry to D&D. I read through the entire Player's handbook in one weekend, and I was extremely impressed by the elegant and consistent system. Since then I have loved playing it for a year: I now have one 11th level Warlord. The combats are fascinating and more than make up for the weak roleplaying of my current group.
(Never really experienced Old D&D, except a brief one month on-line play-by-post thing. Never even heard of 3rd edition until I first encountered 4th edition.)
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