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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 4089619" data-attributes="member: 46713">Let me start by saying that my introduction to D&D was with the AD&D 1E rules. It was a bit later that I participated in a BECMI campaign. While I had fun playing it I never felt the rules were as good as the AD&D rules.I think that's the decisive point <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />It's THE main difference of BECMI, 1E & 2E compared to 3.X.At least in my experience what may appear like a blessing in retrospect quickly evolved into a situation that was a lot worse than 3.X:Exponential growth of house-rules.By the time I was playing 2E I had so many house-rules, I doubt the game would have been recognizable by anyone as D&D - well, okay, I'm exaggerating a bit, but it was real bad. The problem with house-rules is: You have no idea (at least initially) if they are even remotely balanced.I suffered from extreme burnout after a couple of years playing 2E and stopped roleplaying completely for about a year. Then I tried lots of other RPG systems among them all-time favorites of mine, like Runequest and Ars Magica. Then 3.X made me return to D&D with a simple promise:Having a rule for every situation.But it doesn't come without a price, as we now know.I'd say, 4E is an attempt at a compromise between the simple fun of old and the careful balance and rules coverage of late.I sort of share that feeling. While I greatly enjoy the tactical nature of combat which I consider to be the major selling point of D&D, I would very much like D&D 4E to offer an alternative light-weight system to be used for the less important combats. Ars Magica has something like that. Then again you might argue: If the combat isn't important, why play it out at all? Maybe the new social encounter rules could be adopted to decide on the results of minor combat encounters as well?Maybe, I really should.I'm a different person now than I was 24 years ago. My expectations about a game and what I consider fun have changed over time. I now prefer a more casual playing style, getting rid of simulationalist aspects that don't add to the fun.So maybe I'll like BECMI D&D now better than I did in the past. But I think, I'd really like to see the 4E rules first and give them a try. Until then I'll continue with my 3E campaign - I'd really love to bring a campaign to its conclusion for the first time! <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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