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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3056419" data-attributes="member: 22882">All the books I bring to a game today weigh less than my three binders of 2e Monstrous Compendiums, much less the PHB + DMG + Complete Book of Humanoids + Spelljammer Boxed Set + War Captain's Companion + Monster Mythology.  That for 2e.  I do recall it as the days of beautifully crafted and fascinating worlds that I actually wanted to explore, though.  3e's campaign settings haven't fired my imagination nearly as much.Basic D&D I do remember as requiring considerably less.  One book plus the 'Jammer material and the conversion document.  Still, I wouldn't have wanted to use a 'small book bag.'  Plus minis, because I always used minis.  I recall BD&D as the game I actually had fun exploring those fascinating worlds in.As for 1e, I never ran it.  (Never played OD&D at all).  I did, however, play enough 1e to remember the days of losing multiple PCs in a single session in meat grinder dungeons and considering myself comparatively fortunate.  As a player, I was more challenged, but 'in character' was a foreign language.  The 'world' was, Diablo-style, the town where your new PCs got kitted out before plunging into the dungeon.With that said, I've had much better roleplaying in SilCore and HERO than any version of D&D, but frankly I attribute it entirely to the players involved, not the systems.</blockquote>