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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 4901029" data-attributes="member: 10177">Better watch it or your "myths of the past" will start another edition war. I just played 1E for the first time in many years at Gen Con, and we had a lot of fun. That is no myth, and has nothing to do with "nostalgia", its pure fact, RPG's are fun, and I suspect our dim memories of the past actually fool people into believing current RPG's are better than old, when they are not. I thought I would be too turned off by 1E, I was wrong. I had fun. I played  a mage, where most of the time I just hid during combat because I couldn't even safely throw my darts. Definitely not a 4E game where I could have been doing something every round, but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge of the whole thing. So it wasn't the same kind of fun as 4E, or 3E, would give me, but I enjoyed it none the less.All the editions give us are different interpretations of how to play a fantasy RPG, and they are all perfectly capable of giving us a fun time. We just may have to ignore certain rules, change and house rule other rules, to turn it into an even more enjoyable game, but I have done that with every single RPG.So all the newer editions have given me is a new set of rules to turn into a game I like playing. So the only thing that has changed is what rules I have to change to achieve my goals. I still have fun.No nostalgia required.</blockquote>