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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 531670" data-attributes="member: 3854">taking offenseYou will not find anyone who loves/d AD&D1 more than I. I started with BD&D in 1980, then moved up to AD&D within a year or two. I DMed AD&D1 even through the AD&D2 years.For the record, I did not start this thread to poke fun at or bash AD&D. I have more AD&D1 books than I do D&D3 stuff. I love to pick up one of the old books and read or just look through it for fun and inspiration. I was doing this over the weekend, and I thought of this concept for starting an interesting thread here on ENWorld.Most folks here responded in the style I started in. Some folks, though, apparently take immediate offense at any "comparison" between D&D3 and AD&D1. That's sad.What would a modern computer user think if introduced to an old Commodore 64?What would a Playstation gamer think if sat down in front of an old Atari?Compare Baldur's Gate to Pitfall.Would any folks of my generation take offense at these questions? I doubt it -- I think everyone would recognize the nostalgia and humor in the discussion. Then why do some AD&D1 players take offense and get all defensive (and subtly offensive) when someone brings up comparing the older game to the newer version? It's really silly."The bard is a prestige class?"Quasqueton PS: Oh, the 5,000 xp for barbarian was a typo. I had the UA sitting on my desk when I was making the post. <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" /></blockquote>

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