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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 6027461" data-attributes="member: 2205">I haven't noticed any difference in attitude based on what edition you started with.  Attitude towards the game has much more to do with the group you started playing with, and your own natural tastes.To claim otherwise treads perilously close to passive aggressive edition warring.See, I prefer a more point-buyish method because that way I can get the character I want to play.  I've never bought into the notion that I'll just roll up some stats and then make a character based on what I got.  To use your example, I hate playing clerics.  I can't stand the very concept.  I don't even like that they exist in D&D at all.  I don't even like it if someone else in the group plays one, because I hate seeing the stupid class around (although far be it from me to tell someone else what he should or shouldn't play, regardless of how I feel about his choice.)So, if I had rolled up those stats, I wouldn't have had any fun playing that character.  And not because the stats were crappy; but because I couldn't possibly have come up with a character concept that would have interested me enough to play based on those stats.  And there's nothing that kills my enthusiasm for a campaign like playing a character I can't get interested in playing.</blockquote>