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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6801576" data-attributes="member: 6779310">For comparison, my relationship<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1981-summer 1983: Played a mixture of BX and AD&D.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1984-1988: played little D&D, but did get into BECMI D&D academically (as in, reading, but not really playing)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1989: got 2E core. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1990-92: finally started playing 2E, and doing Retail Play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1993-1996: continued AD&D only in Retail Play. What D&D I did play was mostly Cyclopedia. Tried, and HATED, the PO line. Also got Original Edition, ran several one-shots.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1998-1999: had a long running BECMI game, playing Wrath of the Immortals... and using all the PC-series races, and the various sourcebooks... When they hit the key PC-side "change event"... we switched/converted to 3E.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">by late 2000, I was burned on 3E, having run several short games. Gave up on D&D. Didn't give up on d20; playtested the T20: Traveller's Handbook</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In 2003, bought 3.5, noticed it didn't fix what I felt needed fixing, and broke what I liked best...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In 2008, ran another BECMI game... had fun. Tried 4E; didn't feel like D&D, didn't feel like worth the effort, and didn't evince enough fun for the time (and writing) needed, and wasn't about to buy a subscription to get the e-tools...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In 2012, ran another 2E game; about 4 months. Meh. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2013, got into the playtest files. Ran a couple one-session one-shots to try things. Was impressed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2014... got asked by my FLGS if I would consider running D&D 5E... compensated with store credit. I read it, and realized I could, in fact, cope. Wound up running 5E from release... until present (and for the next several months) - both D&D AL and a home game. Compensation ended this summer... but I was at a different store (uncompensated) for almost 3 months, due to a family medical required trip out-of-town.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Early 2016 - am starting to feel the burnout of long campaigns of nothing but D&D for over a year and a half.</li> </ul>D&D 5 is my favorite edition to date... BECMI/Cyclopedia is a very close second. But they aren't the same style of game. Similar, but not the same. I am considering writing some OGL materials derived from/released under the SRD...</blockquote>

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