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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5777838" data-attributes="member: 4937">The only way I can imagine that is if it was said by someone that thought 2nd edition was the one true edition.  Third edition was almost a love letter to grognards that went out of its way to apologize for abandoning the 1st edition fans - right down to bringing back the Barbarian as a core class.Third edition struck me in many ways as a cleaner better thought version of my 1st edition house rules.  Heck, I even recognized the 'scent' monster ability as someone's plug for a logical hole in the 1st edition rules and one that had come up in play and caused arguments at the table.  The third edition rules were clearly written by someone who had played A LOT of D&D and who hadn't been completely happy with the direction 2nd edition had gone in.</blockquote>