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<blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 6542172">For me, &quot;first edition feel&quot; hearkens back to a more free-wheeling game where anything was possible. The rules were a mess but the games were fun and it was always at its best when someone said &quot;I want to do this&quot; and the DM thought a moment and said &quot;roll x, and you want at least a y to succeed.&quot; There was no point in looking it up in the book because it was either not covered, covered in some obscure place, or covered in a way no one liked (pummel/grapple rules).If you had a good DM, it was great. If you had a bad one, the rules could really make it worse (and thus the excessive crunch in 3x to save us from ourselves).To a degree, I thought it was nostalgia when I look back to those days. But my group rediscovered that wonder with Savage Worlds. Same feeling with a more coherent framework. I have not played 5e, but at a light read of the 5e Basic rules it certainly might be able to generate that feeling (lighter and quicker with stronger framework).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="amerigoV, post: 6542172"] For me, "first edition feel" hearkens back to a more free-wheeling game where anything was possible. The rules were a mess but the games were fun and it was always at its best when someone said "I want to do this" and the DM thought a moment and said "roll x, and you want at least a y to succeed." There was no point in looking it up in the book because it was either not covered, covered in some obscure place, or covered in a way no one liked (pummel/grapple rules). If you had a good DM, it was great. If you had a bad one, the rules could really make it worse (and thus the excessive crunch in 3x to save us from ourselves). To a degree, I thought it was nostalgia when I look back to those days. But my group rediscovered that wonder with Savage Worlds. Same feeling with a more coherent framework. I have not played 5e, but at a light read of the 5e Basic rules it certainly might be able to generate that feeling (lighter and quicker with stronger framework). [/QUOTE]

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