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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8739109" data-attributes="member: 86653">You're right. It 100% depends on which edition you're talking about, your resources, and what you want re: product.The version I want (B/X) isn't available POD from DM's Guild and I want it in print. So I'd have to track down 40-year-old staple-bound paper copies at collector's prices, hope they're not trashed, and pay silly prices to ship it to me. And I'm not buying the PDF and taking it to the local print shop to have it printed out. So instead, I can buy a brand new, mint condition, hardback print copy of OSE for less than the cost of getting the original. They also went through the trouble of clarifying the rules, cleaning up a few mistakes, and laying everything out in an easily findable way. And there's heaps of amazing art.Though you will find infinitely bigger player base if you do.For a lot of people older editions of the game will be new to them. I'm lucky that I still have most of my first D&amp;D group from 1984, but literally none of them are interested in going back to B/X or AD&amp;D. So I'll need to find new people to play with if I want to play older editions. Which means either playing B/X or OSE. So either the players will have had the originals, bought them since, or they're using OSE books. That's the benefit of having such an exact duplication retroclone. It's the same game, the name's just different and it's currently supported.Yes, yes, and mostly yes.A lot of the fun of gaming when you're a kid is gone when you game as an adult. Like watching a movie you loved as a kid when you get older. It's still the same, but you've changed. The world around you has changed. Etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8739109, member: 86653"] You're right. It 100% depends on which edition you're talking about, your resources, and what you want re: product. The version I want (B/X) isn't available POD from DM's Guild and I want it in print. So I'd have to track down 40-year-old staple-bound paper copies at collector's prices, hope they're not trashed, and pay silly prices to ship it to me. And I'm not buying the PDF and taking it to the local print shop to have it printed out. So instead, I can buy a brand new, mint condition, hardback print copy of OSE for less than the cost of getting the original. They also went through the trouble of clarifying the rules, cleaning up a few mistakes, and laying everything out in an easily findable way. And there's heaps of amazing art. Though you will find infinitely bigger player base if you do. For a lot of people older editions of the game will be new to them. I'm lucky that I still have most of my first D&D group from 1984, but literally none of them are interested in going back to B/X or AD&D. So I'll need to find new people to play with if I want to play older editions. Which means either playing B/X or OSE. So either the players will have had the originals, bought them since, or they're using OSE books. That's the benefit of having such an exact duplication retroclone. It's the same game, the name's just different and it's currently supported. Yes, yes, and mostly yes. A lot of the fun of gaming when you're a kid is gone when you game as an adult. Like watching a movie you loved as a kid when you get older. It's still the same, but you've changed. The world around you has changed. Etc. [/QUOTE]

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