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<blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8960303" data-attributes="member: 86051"><p>Every time I read people saying that they miss 1E/2E I always wonder why on earth they <em><strong>did</strong></em> move on. </p><p></p><p>When 3E came out, most DMs in our group had whole continents, archipelagos, or even larger parts of worlds worked out, with dungeons, villages, towns, cities, religions, nobles, Thieves' Guilds, armies, with everything mapped and statted out, binders and binders full of them. </p><p>So for us, the choice was easily made:</p><p></p><p>1) We gonna restat everything? No way.</p><p></p><p>2) Besides: The rules work, don't they? So what's the point of starting to use new ones? And what about all of the source books, modules, and magazines I'm using?</p><p></p><p>It's a choice none of us have ever regretted.</p><p></p><p>As to why we "moved on to 2E" I can only say that we didn't even realize we did at the time. We just saw the "new PHB" as the "new PHB", a clarification or reorganization of 1E that just said "2E" for marketing purposes rather than anything else. Indeed, the vast majority of the campaigns and adventures I've run have always had their roots in 1E or contemporary publications (modules, White Dwarf, Dragon Magazine, the incomparable Cities of Harn) and they still are. Whenever I need to look something up, I still consult DMG1 first. Whenever there's a siege, I use the 1E rules. I always use the DMG1 tables for gems, herbs, diseases, insanity, and how potions look. Whenever I notice something in some 2E source (e.g., spells), I check a relevant 1E source to find out how it was supposed to be and correct the wrong.</p><p></p><p>And then there's the whole feel of 1E, the art, the pulp fantasy origins, the incomprehensible aspects (unarmed combat anyone?). I love rummaging through that old stuff, discovering new things in it, implementing it. Heck, I've even come to respect Dave C. Sutherland III!</p><p></p><p>So for me, although I play 2E, 1E has never left.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilgatto, post: 8960303, member: 86051"] Every time I read people saying that they miss 1E/2E I always wonder why on earth they [I][B]did[/B][/I] move on. When 3E came out, most DMs in our group had whole continents, archipelagos, or even larger parts of worlds worked out, with dungeons, villages, towns, cities, religions, nobles, Thieves' Guilds, armies, with everything mapped and statted out, binders and binders full of them. So for us, the choice was easily made: 1) We gonna restat everything? No way. 2) Besides: The rules work, don't they? So what's the point of starting to use new ones? And what about all of the source books, modules, and magazines I'm using? It's a choice none of us have ever regretted. As to why we "moved on to 2E" I can only say that we didn't even realize we did at the time. We just saw the "new PHB" as the "new PHB", a clarification or reorganization of 1E that just said "2E" for marketing purposes rather than anything else. Indeed, the vast majority of the campaigns and adventures I've run have always had their roots in 1E or contemporary publications (modules, White Dwarf, Dragon Magazine, the incomparable Cities of Harn) and they still are. Whenever I need to look something up, I still consult DMG1 first. Whenever there's a siege, I use the 1E rules. I always use the DMG1 tables for gems, herbs, diseases, insanity, and how potions look. Whenever I notice something in some 2E source (e.g., spells), I check a relevant 1E source to find out how it was supposed to be and correct the wrong. And then there's the whole feel of 1E, the art, the pulp fantasy origins, the incomprehensible aspects (unarmed combat anyone?). I love rummaging through that old stuff, discovering new things in it, implementing it. Heck, I've even come to respect Dave C. Sutherland III! So for me, although I play 2E, 1E has never left. [/QUOTE]
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