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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9525486" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I played Holmes Basic and AD&D 1E in the early 80's. I continued playing a few non-D&D RPGs from the mid 80's to the late 90's (Villains and Vigilantes and MERP are the ones I remember by name), but by the end of the 20th century, I'd completely stopped RPGing for a while.I wasn't drawn back to RPGing by 5E, but there was a certain coincidence with its release. What happened was that my son became old enough to become interested in an old copy of Fantasy Hero I had lying around. I had never played it, but he said he would like to, so I started thinking about how I could put together a game. I believe this was in late 2013. I still had my copy of MERP, and we started playing a game of that. It was about a group of orcs leaving Mordor, and I thought it would be fun to use B2 as part of the campaign. As I was doing some research online, I came across the D&D Next playtest version of The Caves of Chaos and learned about the public playtest. I pitched it to my son, and we made him a character like the one he wanted to play in Fantasy Hero, a wood elf rogue. I've been playing 5E ever since. You could say my son brought me back to RPGing which brought me back to B2 which introduced me to 5E which brought me back to D&D.I'm not very interested in version 5.2, but would very much like to expand into playing OD&D, AD&D 1E, and B/X, as well as a few other games I have my eye on. I'm currently still playing version 5.0, which I consider the core books plus material published through January 2016 when the 5E SRD was released. I've allowed some options from XGtE into one of my games in the past but like to stick with 5.0 as long as the players are on board.</blockquote>

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