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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2062554" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I voted "switched to another system" but it wasn't really because of 2E.</p><p></p><p>We played a lot of 1E when we were young teens and it was clearly the system of choice for those years. But one guy in our group started to get heat from the parents about the whole "D&D is Evil" thing in the early 80's and was having to be more and more sneaky about playing. For some silly reason it was only the brand that they objected to and he got his hands on a copy of MERP and they had no problems with that. </p><p></p><p>We started to play some MERP and transitioned quickly into Rolemaster at almost exactly the same time that 2E came out. It wasn't necessarily that we hated 2E but more that we had the money to invest in only one new game system. We played Rolemaster almost exclusively for the next 12 years (the only exceptions being the occasional "nostalgia 1E game" that I'd run on the holidays).</p><p></p><p>Rolemaster (IMHO) got better with the advent of RMSS and then began a slow slide into "rules bloat" that I helped to contribute to by authoring and assisting with a couple of the suppliments for it. We started to get burned out pretty bad just about the time that 3E came out. I asked for and got the books for that Christmas, we played a one-off game with them at the beach on New Years and the rest is history.</p><p></p><p>I really like 3E, don't really want to go back to Rolemaster, don't really want to go back to 1E (though I'd happily play in a one-off game like Henry ran at the last NC Game Day) and I never owned a single book from 2E.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rel, post: 2062554, member: 99"] I voted "switched to another system" but it wasn't really because of 2E. We played a lot of 1E when we were young teens and it was clearly the system of choice for those years. But one guy in our group started to get heat from the parents about the whole "D&D is Evil" thing in the early 80's and was having to be more and more sneaky about playing. For some silly reason it was only the brand that they objected to and he got his hands on a copy of MERP and they had no problems with that. We started to play some MERP and transitioned quickly into Rolemaster at almost exactly the same time that 2E came out. It wasn't necessarily that we hated 2E but more that we had the money to invest in only one new game system. We played Rolemaster almost exclusively for the next 12 years (the only exceptions being the occasional "nostalgia 1E game" that I'd run on the holidays). Rolemaster (IMHO) got better with the advent of RMSS and then began a slow slide into "rules bloat" that I helped to contribute to by authoring and assisting with a couple of the suppliments for it. We started to get burned out pretty bad just about the time that 3E came out. I asked for and got the books for that Christmas, we played a one-off game with them at the beach on New Years and the rest is history. I really like 3E, don't really want to go back to Rolemaster, don't really want to go back to 1E (though I'd happily play in a one-off game like Henry ran at the last NC Game Day) and I never owned a single book from 2E. [/QUOTE]
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