Favourite D&D edition that’s not 5E

[doctorbadwolf]

4E is my second favorite because it brought so many good ideas into the mainstream, like minions, nonstandard monster creation, strange abilities, etc... while also stepping away from the insane rules crunch of 3E. 2E is probably my third favorite just from sheer sense of wonder and delight I experienced while playing it (even though I started with red box).

5E is a great step forward, stepping even further away from hard crunch. The biggest weakness of 5E for me is mostly boring monsters. But that’s something I can easily rectify.

I find that 4e monster powers translate pretty well as monster abilities.