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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 27575" data-attributes="member: 158">It's not that most former 2E players HATE 2E - but rather that they find disdain in returning to it. When one finds something easier to run with more options, you hate to returning to that which has less options, and which is harder to run.A lot of people disliked 2E in the first place because it had many stigmas attached - compared to other RPG's, it was limited in scope and had many quirky behaviors that were surpassed by other systems. Many players who started with other systems never even cared to go to 2E, because of this perception.Even I dabbled with GURPS and Vampire and Shadowrun before our group returned to D&D back in 1998. It was D&D that sparked our imagination, and what many of us grew up playing.About the only thing I WOULDN'T mind playing again just for old times' sake would be Original D&D. Sometimes having those 10 basic options or so was fun in a different, nostalgic way.Before, I had to look at tables to determine saving throws, and turning attempts, and spell progressions. Now, I can create a 3rd edition D&D character almost from scratch without having to refer to a rule book - the progressions and options are all laid out for me in formulas, and It takes almost nothing to calculate something I don't recall - BAB's, Saves, Hit points, spell progressions, ability score bonuses - I could even tell you what the ability score bonus spells are for any intelligence score up to 30! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (That's -,3,3,2,2,2,2,1,1,1 by the way - think of a block of four numbers cascading bigger and to the right.)</blockquote>

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