For 4vengers: What is your preferred fallback edition?

[cavalier973]

You've somehow managed to get tickets to VaporCon, and arrived ready to play some D&D!

Unfortunately, all the 4th edition games are filled up, because it's just so popular. There are, however, openings for games that use the rules to these other editions: 0e, Basic (B/X & BECMI), AD&D 1, AD&D 2, 3E, 3.5E, and 5E.

Which game do you join?

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Dungeon World.

 

[cavalier973]

AbdulAlhazred: What was it we had for dinner tonight?
Elaine Dickinson: Well, we had a choice of steak or fish.
AbdulAlhazred: Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

AbdulAlhazred: What was it we had for dinner tonight?
Elaine Dickinson: Well, we had a choice of steak or fish.
AbdulAlhazred: Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.

But sweetheart, that cheesecake we shared, was divine! I think its enough to declare a bond upon!

 

[pemerton]

[MENTION=91595]cavalier973[/MENTION], I'm breaking your rules too.

If I wasn't playing 4e, but had to play some version of D&D, I would probably choose the modified version of AD&D that I've written up for my own amusement (it started with the goal of tweaking all the classes' advancement details - hp per level, to hit per level, spells per level, etc - to make them fit on a common XP chart, and has grown a bit from there).

I guess I should tick AD&D on your poll.

In the real world of lasagna and cheesecakes, I am playing Burning Wheel.

EDIT: why are the poll results hidden?

 

[cavalier973]

Aw, crud; I picked the wrong polling option. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

They should be visible to anyone who votes.

So far (as of 09/22 @ 6:27 a. m. CST), no one has picked 0e or 3e. We have 2 votes for Basic (well, 3, but one of the votes is mine, and I'm not counting that one), 1 vote each for 1e and 2e, 3 votes for 3.5, and 4 votes for 5e.

 

[cavalier973]

cavalier973: Burning Wheel? It's an entirely different kind of roleplaying, altogether.
Rumack, Randy: [together] It's an entirely different kind of roleplaying.

 

[Umbran]

It would be nice, folks, if you played along, rather than just tossing the thread concept to the wind. "Any game you please," wasn't one of the options. In a convention scenario, sometimes you have limited choice - go with it.

The poll, perhaps, should have included an option for, "If 4e is not available, I would prefer to not play rather than play another form of D&D".

 

[RedSiegfried]

I'd really like to answer 13A, but if I'm limited to real D&D, I'd have to say Basic.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

I have to say 0e then just for the nostalgia factor. We really only played true 0e for a very short time 40 years ago. I'm not really all that tempted, but I can imagine having an amusing session or a few of them stumbling through the maze of half-written rules making stuff up.