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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5333834" data-attributes="member: 18253">Personally, I would be none too keen to go back to an older system, partly for the hassle of getting the old source books, partly because I like the newer systems better. And partly because all the rulesets are massive enough that it is hard to keep multiple versions in my little head. But what would convince me? Well, for one, I'd have to trust the ref and it would have to be part of a known group of friends but sounds like you have that covered. I would definitely not take it on faith that a ref and/or game group I did not know would make this worthwhile. After that, it would come down to a personal appeal from the referee along the lines of, "I really want to ref and I really want to go back to AD&D2 because of the memories[or whatever is motivating you]." What you would need to address is rulebooks (tell them you won't need much, you'll copy the relevant parts, you'll help them find the books, etc.) and explain why it matters to you. I'd certainly avoid getting into an edition merit discussion; that's a difficult path. You aren't going to convince me that 2E is better and I'd guess you aren't going to convince your friends either. But if you were a friend I trusted and you made it clear why you wanted to do this exercise, I'd give it a go although I would probably ask for the right to consider after some period of time (6months? a year?) What if your group balks and one of the others offers to ref in a newer revision? Will you go along? On a separate note, you'd have a lot of work convincing me to play Dark Sun, too. I really dislike that setting <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Just doesn't float my fantasy boat.</blockquote>

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