D&D 4E Going/Not Going to 4E which edition did you start with?

[delericho]

Very first game was 1st Edition, although it didn't last long. My start as a DM was with the Red Box Basic set, then 2nd Edition, 3.0 and 3.5.

I don't expect to be moving to 4e.

 

[tombowings]

Right now, I'm talking to my group about switching. So I guess I would be pro 4E.

I began playing D&D in 2001 with 1st edition. A family friend played the game in college and thought I would enjoy it. I played mostly with him and my brother for about 4 years. in 2005 I started to play 3.5 with a group of friends at school. As a note: I still favor 1st edition more than 3.5--too many rules.

 

[Steely Dan]

then dropped D&D completely sometime around the Complete Nosepicker's Handbook in, oh, 1993 or 1994

Ha ha, me too, that is also why I didn't jump on the must-buy-every-3rd Ed-splatbook, I learned my lesson from The Complete Gnome Cobbler Handbook or what have you.

 

[Toryx]

I'm pretty impressed with how many of us started with the Red Box. That's how I started as well though I never got around to buying the expert box. I mostly skipped 1e and moved right into 2e and played it for quite a few years until my interest petered out around '95. I had just taken up 2e again when Dragon started doing all the 3e previews and hooked me with their Feat previews.

Though I was irritated at the expense, I bought 3.5 immediately and for the most part liked it even more than 3.0. I've been very satisfied with 3.5 and ultimately have no desire to move on to any new edition. I like 3.5 and would have much preferred seeing another update to it to fix the problems that exist instead of starting over with a new edition that will be ripe with brand new bugs.

I plan to play 4e, but I'm not going to stop playing 3.5 or a derivative so long as I have others to play it with. I'm really hoping that a 3rd party publisher will do a 3.75.

 

[Pinotage]

Started with the Red Basic Set, moved on to 1e, skipped 2e entirely, and got back with 3e and then 3.5e.

4e? Very much on the fence, leaning over to the 'stay with 3.5e' side. That's not to say I won't pilfer 4e for every good idea it has, but I just don't see the need to switch given the games I'm in, and the amount of material I still have to play with.

So, I'm probably more a 'Kill 4e and take it's stuff' kind of person.

Pinotage

 

[Lord Kyle Windsor]

Started playing an unknown version of basic back in 1981. I say unknown because I only had a character sheet -- played during lunch in grade school and I never saw the book. Have played 1e, 2e, 3e, and will pick up the 4e books to read. Don't know if I'll use them, but I'll read them...

 

[Belorin]

My first game was with a computer print-out of 1E when I was stationed at Great Lakes, IL. back in '76. Someone in the barracks had a pile of fanfold computer paper with the compiled rules from the OD&D books. Says he got it from the computer at the UofWisc.
Then when AD&D came I scooped it up, switched to 2E when it came out, skipped 3.0 and went with 3.5.

Bel

 

[Thyrwyn]

Definitely switching to 4e: I started with the very 1st AD&D Player's handbook in 1979 and have played every editions since. Played pretty much every RPG that came out in the '80's - but mostly RQ, Space Opera, and Aftermath. Never played 'basic' D&D. . .

 

[am181d]

1e > 2e > 3e > 4e.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Started with 2E (basically at the 1E/2E transition, most people I knew were playing 1E), played the hell out of it, played 2.5E for a while (even after 3E came out), played 3E, mostly skipped 3.5E until a year or so ago.

I'm strongly inclined to switch to 4E. It has cons, more and more significant cons than 3E had, even, but it also has a lot more "pros" for me than 3E did, and it slaughtered a lot of sacred cows I was keen to see go.