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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonhelm" data-source="post: 3609307" data-attributes="member: 3867">Personally, I don't ever say, "I'll never play X system again."  Truth of the matter is, if the game is fun and the folks playing are cool, then I'm going to play.  I'd play AD&D, D&D 3e, C&C, whatever.  I just want to game!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Absolutely.  It's kind of a pet peeve of mine to see people put down a prior system's products just for not being the current system (and vice versa).  Yet if we put the rules aside, there are some great flavor pieces to be found.  For example, the 2e Arms and Equipment Guide is one of the best sources for weapons out there.  In my humble opinion, it beats the socks off of its 3rd edition counterpart.  Where 2e shines, though, is in settings.  I loved many of the settings released during the day, and that love continues to today.   Right, Dark Sun is very much a 2e world.  I've seen a couple of official adaptations (Athas.org as official site and Paizo as official D&D content) and both have good elements to them, but both kind of miss the point in certain cases.In the Dragon conversion, I believe each race had an inherent psionic power.  What I would recommend would be for each character to gain the Hidden Talent feat as a bonus, giving them a 1st level power for free.  Just say all characters get it for free across the board, and you're good.To me, the charm of Ravenloft was that it tied to all the D&D settings.  In those regards, it was also very much a 2e setting (since all the settings were tied together in 2e).  I grabbed the original Ravenloft setting book for 3e, and really found it lacking.  And you're right, conversion time is something to consider.  Is it better to convert everything, or play a system that isn't your favorite because all the books are already using that system?It could be, though a lot of the errors from the 1st printing were already caught.  I'm not sure what the differences will be between 2nd and 3rd printings.C&C really grew on me in that it had a lot of what I liked about all editions of D&D.  In a way, it's the "lost edition," being a bridge between 2e and 3e.  When I started looking at C&C, I felt like I could use my favorite old books again with minimal conversion while still being able to use the new books.So check it out.  It's a great system and lots of fun.</blockquote>

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