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<blockquote data-quote="Cruentus" data-source="post: 9109979" data-attributes="member: 7034645">Over 40 years, we started with 1e (brief B/X look-in), but jumped at &quot;advanced&quot;, even though we weren't back in 7th grade.&nbsp; As each new edition came out, we jumped onto that one, all the way up until 4e.&nbsp; When 4e hit, our &quot;forever DM&quot; got the books, and we tried it, and bounced off hard.&nbsp; Or at least I did.&nbsp; They may have pressed on a little, but it didn't have a long play time.&nbsp; Instead, we did things like Stormbringer, GURPS, Amber, Mechwarrior RPG, Cyberpunk, and a bunch of other stuff that was out, but never got a look.&nbsp; Then we picked up 5e late to the game, around 4 years ago (so, 2020?), played it for several campaigns each about 1.5 years, and became disillusioned with it.&nbsp; I even picked up DMing, since we had been bouncing duties around.&nbsp; I tried one campaign, and I stopped it after about a year, as it was just too draining to fight the system.&nbsp; I've since picked up and am running a couple of B/X/OSE/Beyond the Wall campaigns, and several of us went back to the beginning and are having a blast.&nbsp; We're not even looking at the new 5e, aside from keeping an eye on the UAs to see how much further they can go away from what we like when we play.&nbsp; We might pull things into our games, but we're not buying or playing the system anymore.&nbsp; So, overall, I've gone from B/X &gt; 1e &gt;2e &gt;3e &gt;3.5e &gt;4e &gt;5e &gt; B/X/OSE.&nbsp; Right back to the beginning, and this is where I'll stay.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cruentus, post: 9109979, member: 7034645"] Over 40 years, we started with 1e (brief B/X look-in), but jumped at "advanced", even though we weren't back in 7th grade. As each new edition came out, we jumped onto that one, all the way up until 4e. When 4e hit, our "forever DM" got the books, and we tried it, and bounced off hard. Or at least I did. They may have pressed on a little, but it didn't have a long play time. Instead, we did things like Stormbringer, GURPS, Amber, Mechwarrior RPG, Cyberpunk, and a bunch of other stuff that was out, but never got a look. Then we picked up 5e late to the game, around 4 years ago (so, 2020?), played it for several campaigns each about 1.5 years, and became disillusioned with it. I even picked up DMing, since we had been bouncing duties around. I tried one campaign, and I stopped it after about a year, as it was just too draining to fight the system. I've since picked up and am running a couple of B/X/OSE/Beyond the Wall campaigns, and several of us went back to the beginning and are having a blast. We're not even looking at the new 5e, aside from keeping an eye on the UAs to see how much further they can go away from what we like when we play. We might pull things into our games, but we're not buying or playing the system anymore. So, overall, I've gone from B/X > 1e >2e >3e >3.5e >4e >5e > B/X/OSE. Right back to the beginning, and this is where I'll stay. :) [/QUOTE]

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