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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveMage" data-source="post: 6251666" data-attributes="member: 10447">For me, D&D (now Pathfinder) has always been my creative outlet.I started with the basic set then quickly moved to AD&D as well.  I devoured the 1E Player's Handbook, DMG, and Monster Manual and have been smitten since.  I still remember the sheer joy I felt when walking into Waldenbooks and seeing the 1E Monster Manual 2 when it first came out.  I read that thing form cover to cover immediately.As a 10-14 year old kid at the time, the game really expanded my vocabulary and introduced me to the whole fantasy genre (thanks, Appendix N!).  I appreciated that the game was not written for children.  I quickly moved to 2E when it came out, but hated the loss of demons & devils (what the heck is a tanar'ri?).  Unfortunately, my gaming group dissolved near the end of 2E because the rules became so imbalanced that it stopped being fun for some.  I was hesitant about 3E at first, but since they kept the fluff (for the most part), I was very jazzed up when it released and loved it immediately.  I liked the changes in 3.5, but was unhappy that it (along with Osseum's implosion) killed one of the main d20 companies I admired: Bastion Press.  Never tried 4E as the timing, marketing, and changes were all big turn-offs for me (and, most importantly, I was *happy* with 3.5).So now it's Pathfinder, which I think they've done a super job with.I don't need Next, so the only way I see me getting any further D&D product is if it's usable with Pathfinder (such as an adventure).Still, I love what D&D was to me as a 10-38 year old.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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