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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4166043" data-attributes="member: 49613">Don't be so concerned with feelings!&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Just make a rational choice: is this game (whichever one we are talking about) going to be fun for me, insofar as it meshes with my gaming philosophy and play style and is something worth investing my time, effort and possibly money into?&nbsp; If the answer about a particular game or edition is &quot;no, the way this game approaches tabletop gaming is not the way that I approach it&quot; (because it is too complicated, not complicated enough, de-emphasizes dungeons, emphasizes dungeons, whatever) then find one that does.&nbsp; You have a lot to choose from.If you are interested in thinking about D&amp;D and what D&amp;D is about, I suggest that you look into OD&amp;D... the original 1974 edition.&nbsp; Looking at that edition and 3.x and thinking about the differences will really help you formulate your approach to D&amp;D and what you want the game to do and to be about.Over the last several years I think I've become pretty sophisticated in my thinking about role playing games.&nbsp; And the result of my sophistication is that I realize that the games I like best are the ones that most people think are the least sophisticated, like OD&amp;D (1974), Classic D&amp;D, Gamma World 1st edition, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 4166043, member: 49613"] Don't be so concerned with feelings! :) Just make a rational choice: is this game (whichever one we are talking about) going to be fun for me, insofar as it meshes with my gaming philosophy and play style and is something worth investing my time, effort and possibly money into? If the answer about a particular game or edition is "no, the way this game approaches tabletop gaming is not the way that I approach it" (because it is too complicated, not complicated enough, de-emphasizes dungeons, emphasizes dungeons, whatever) then find one that does. You have a lot to choose from. If you are interested in thinking about D&D and what D&D is about, I suggest that you look into OD&D... the original 1974 edition. Looking at that edition and 3.x and thinking about the differences will really help you formulate your approach to D&D and what you want the game to do and to be about. Over the last several years I think I've become pretty sophisticated in my thinking about role playing games. And the result of my sophistication is that I realize that the games I like best are the ones that most people think are the [i]least[/i] sophisticated, like OD&D (1974), Classic D&D, Gamma World 1st edition, etc. [/QUOTE]

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