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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8644608" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I don't know, I have a friend, Guy, who still to this day calls 3e &quot;that horrible WotC edition&quot; and insists that they should have stuck to making a card game.&nbsp; The way he talks, you might think he was somehow personally betrayed by 3e's existence.&nbsp; He still plays and runs his 1e/2e mashup with tons of custom rules, and he seems barely cognizant that we're up to 5e D&amp;D.When you ask him what the big deal is, he always starts with &quot;why did they change Thac0, there was no reason to do that&quot;.&nbsp; He actually likes rolling high to attack and rolling low for ability checks!&nbsp; He likes the random d100 subsystems- I've tried for two decades now to even get him to try a newer iteration of D&amp;D (or even Pathfinder), and he turns up his nose like it's limburger!So yeah, I don't think you could have seamlessly ported 5e to the 80's.&nbsp; People playing regular D&amp;D would be like &quot;uh, why is everything so complicated and weird?&quot;&nbsp; Also, 5e has demons and devils and let's not forget how that went...And come on, AD&amp;D without Gygaxian hyperbole and purple prose? Without arcane and profound rules densely packed into the DMG?Blasphemy!&nbsp; People would riot in the streets saying &quot;where's mah rules, TSR?!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8644608, member: 6877472"] I don't know, I have a friend, Guy, who still to this day calls 3e "that horrible WotC edition" and insists that they should have stuck to making a card game. The way he talks, you might think he was somehow personally betrayed by 3e's existence. He still plays and runs his 1e/2e mashup with tons of custom rules, and he seems barely cognizant that we're up to 5e D&D. When you ask him what the big deal is, he always starts with "why did they change Thac0, there was no reason to do that". He actually [B]likes[/B] rolling high to attack and rolling low for ability checks! He [B]likes[/B] the random d100 subsystems- I've tried for two decades now to even get him to try a newer iteration of D&D (or even Pathfinder), and he turns up his nose like it's limburger! So yeah, I don't think you could have seamlessly ported 5e to the 80's. People playing regular D&D would be like "uh, why is everything so complicated and weird?" Also, 5e has [I]demons and devils[/I] and let's not forget how that went... And come on, AD&D without Gygaxian hyperbole and purple prose? Without arcane and profound rules densely packed into the DMG? Blasphemy! People would riot in the streets saying "where's mah rules, TSR?!" [/QUOTE]

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