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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UniversalMonster" data-source="post: 5468558" data-attributes="member: 1034">I started playing D&D with 1st edition in 1978. I love AD&D 1st edition. I sort of dropped out in AD&D2e.. but came back for a girlfriends campaign when Tome of Magic came out. I had a wild-mage, and I learned about Spelljammer. I got the Rules Cyclopedia in the 90s and was a huge fan of the Voyage of the Princess Ark boxed set (and Dragon articles). Basic D&D harkens back to a simpler time, and that, more than anything, informed the DMing style I use to this day. In 1999 I came back in and got all of the AD&D2e books  *just* to play Planescape because a Planescape box sort of fell into my hands. I have the black border edition. When 3e came out, I ran it weekly for the entire life of the edition. I'm still a huge fan of 3rd edition. And then 4th edition came out.. and it cleaned up a lot of the issues that 3e had. 3e provided the things I wanted like a skill system and interesting tactics.. and then 4e simplified it and made those elements sing. I do think this: 4th Edition is - bar none-- the best version of D&D ever published. And it's the closest in spirit to how I feel D&D is supposed to work. But that's just an opinion, of course. You know how Diaglo always had that thing in his signature block about his favorite edition? That's cool! It's always cool to like something. I've played them all. I like this one. But it's all D&D. If I want to play an earlier edition (and sometimes I do) I already own them. I don't need some company to "re-release" stuff that I already have to make me feel good about my choices. Geez- the entire point of D&D is you don't need official content.. you can come up with your own stuff fairly easily! I don't need new players to have a background in the history of D&D- because back when this was all new? There was no history.  Everything was new thne. Everything is new now. If 5th edition came out and I didn't like it, it wouldn't take away what I already have. It wouldn't stop me from loving D&D or playing it however I liked. D&D isn't an edition, it's what I do with my friends. I wish we could all get over the sociopathic self-centered foolishness of edition wars and industry obsession or maybe come to the realization that resentment isn't a matter of edition, it's a regrettable personal choice. In effect it's saying "you can't be having fun because I'm unhappy". Move on. This is a wonderful hobby. New D&D players I meet (with very few exceptions) are funny and interesting and I'm happy to have met them.. If I had one request I could make to the edition warriors it's this: stop trying to ruin the online discussion and appreciation of D&D (of all editions) for everyone else just because you have some personal issue. The problem is you. Stop doing it. Go on a retreat. Do some soul searching. Talk about something else that you do like. Quit wallowing, it's just gross.</blockquote>

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