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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5844126" data-attributes="member: 55680">They're really pretty damn similar the main differences:-Lots of little rule tweaks and simplifications and removing 1ed rules that most people didn't use.-Moving gold as XP to an optional rule (having gold = xp works great for the sort of dungeon crawling you want).-The presentation of the rules is a lot clearer in 2ed but it doesn't have the mad disorganized genius of 1ed. The problem with 1ed here is that it takes too much knowledge on your part for granted, it can be hard to get a handle on what the rules are supposed to be doing unless you're already familiar with old school D&D. This is why I'd recommend doing a retroclone first and then reading the 1ed stuff later when you have a context to place it in.-2ed is bowdlerized (reverences to demons and devils removed, all references to anything sexual expunged, etc. etc.) and the general kind of fantasy it's aiming at is a lot more like Terry Brooks while 1ed is a lot more old school S&S. Also you can mix and match stuff just fine, for a long time I DMed with a 1ed DMG, a 2ed PHB and a Rules Cyclopedia for the monsters. The 1ed DMG is just so full of ideas that even if you don't use it for the rules it's an awesome idea mine and the 2ed MM has the best monster ecologies of any edition.</blockquote>