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<blockquote data-quote="PapersAndPaychecks" data-source="post: 4166061" data-attributes="member: 28854">I remember it clearly.&nbsp; This was around the Skills &amp; Powers era... the group was getting leerier and leerier of T$R products in any case, having decided several of the later 1e hardbacks were a complete waste of money, but we used to pick and choose bits of 2e to bolt onto what was still essentially a 1e game.&nbsp; Anyway, one of my friends picked up S&amp;P and we all sat around and read it.&nbsp; The nine of us voted unanimously that we weren't going to play that rubbish.&nbsp; My friend returned the S&amp;P book to the shop, and we simply stopped buying D&amp;D products.For a long time--four or five years, at least--the group played alternately BRP CoC, WHFRP, Rolemaster II, and Runequest II (that later morphed into a RQ2/3 hybrid).Then we were starting to get the D&amp;D bug again, so the same guy bought a 3e PHB.&nbsp; We passed it round at the start of the next session.&nbsp; There was no vote about whether to play it--my wife read various sections of the rules aloud, and we all fell about laughing.So we returned the 3e PHB to the shop, and picked up our 1e D&amp;D games pretty much where we'd left off.I think if we were considering trying to attract new players, there might have been an issue, but my gaming group's been in almost its present form since 1984.&nbsp; (Two additions--the lady who's now my wife joined the group in 1987, and my son started playing with us in 2003.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PapersAndPaychecks, post: 4166061, member: 28854"] I remember it clearly. This was around the Skills & Powers era... the group was getting leerier and leerier of T$R products in any case, having decided several of the later 1e hardbacks were a complete waste of money, but we used to pick and choose bits of 2e to bolt onto what was still essentially a 1e game. Anyway, one of my friends picked up S&P and we all sat around and read it. The nine of us voted unanimously that we weren't going to play that rubbish. My friend returned the S&P book to the shop, and we simply stopped buying D&D products. For a long time--four or five years, at least--the group played alternately BRP CoC, WHFRP, Rolemaster II, and Runequest II (that later morphed into a RQ2/3 hybrid). Then we were starting to get the D&D bug again, so the same guy bought a 3e PHB. We passed it round at the start of the next session. There was no vote about whether to play it--my wife read various sections of the rules aloud, and we all fell about laughing. So we returned the 3e PHB to the shop, and picked up our 1e D&D games pretty much where we'd left off. I think if we were considering trying to attract new players, there might have been an issue, but my gaming group's been in almost its present form since 1984. (Two additions--the lady who's now my wife joined the group in 1987, and my son started playing with us in 2003.) [/QUOTE]

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