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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5097805" data-attributes="member: 46713">That's something I've experienced, too.When hanging around in my FLGS I'd often get talked at by strangers telling me about the exploits of their characters. I especially remember someone telling me about his barbarian/vampire hunter who was running around killing gods with his two vorpal daggers.Umm, yeah.Back then I couldn't help but think that me and my circle of friends seemed to be the only people who played AD&D in a sane way: Magic items were rare and no one ever managed to survive long after reaching the name levels (if they ever got that far).And to be honest, before 3e came around I felt that (A)D&D was really inferior to almost every other rpg on the market. It was _the_ system for munchkins and fans of hack&slay.'Real' roleplayers played different systems. And I also felt that almost all of them had better game mechanics.The only advantages (A)D&D had over most of them were: tons of 'stuff' (monsters, spells, magic items) and being easy to DM.I disagree about Monopoly being an example of a game with few variations, though. Monopoly is one of the games that you're usually taught by others. There's tons of house rules and everyone I've ever met played it differently. And none of them played it by the book!When I eventually actually read the rule book I was really surprised how different they were from my previous play experiences.</blockquote>