Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="francisca" data-source="post: 2023318" data-attributes="member: 9734">I'm in my second stint.  I played from 1981 until 1986/87, then quit because:1) My group went all rules lawyery.2) I hated the Survival guides, as they enabled the above.3) Munchkinism was rampant.4) I despised the way published modules were being written, and that is where my group wanted to go.5) I had far too many other things going on to find another group.Looking back, the problem was more of an issue with my group than with the game, but i didn't like the way the game was headed either.  So my D&D development was arrested at 1E Core + FF + MMII + D&Dg + 83 Greyhawk boxed set, and a handful of modules, with the Moldvay/Cook basic/expert sets and a few modules.  I piddled around with 1E gamma world in college, but never got around to playing.  When I saw 2nd edition AD&D, I figured I'd never play again.Fast forward to 1997, and a co-worker gets me into Magic: the Addiciton.  Played that for a while, and he kept nagging me to join his D&D game (1E).  I resisted until 1999, then joined.  Been playing almost every other saturday since then.In 2000, I started hanging about Eric's site.  In early 2001, I bought the core 3.0 books.  In late 2001, I fired up my own home brew, which ended with a wimper at the end of december 2004.So, about 11 years of total play, in two parts.  Completely skipped 1E+UA (until recently when I decided to use the spells and magic, and the unarmed combat sections for my new 1E game).  Completely skipped 2E and 2.5E, though I would probably give either a try with the right group.</blockquote>

Verification