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<blockquote data-quote="XO" data-source="post: 3319710" data-attributes="member: 24452">Gimp MagicThat says it all... We were running around with machine gun archmages and this &quot;thing&quot; came along&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> You may criticize Gygax prose all you want, I could pick up my 1E DMG or my PHB and just read them with pleasure, awkwardness and all. There were strange areas. And a 1E DMG STILL has more text than a 3.5 one (word for word, given the font size, tinier art, and much savvier contents). Basically, it had soul, whereas 2e seemed contrived by the wrong people, and 3e / 3.5 has the most horrendous dull repetitive blatantly normalized PC texts I've read... They may somehow satisfy a need for even-handedness in rules writing, but I've seen legal texts that had more punch (read a few decisions by more opinionated judges and you will have to agree).2e ecologies were a foray into rational explanations a fantasy game should not need. Wanna know where monsters come from? When children eat sweets before going to bed, or when they have nightmares, the world seizes upon their dreams, infuses them with magic and drops a monstrous being somewhere.... That explains the variety.Still play 3.5 though, but we're talking about IT (the return to 1e)... 3.5 is awful system for modules and protracted for fights. We're talking about it....&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="XO, post: 3319710, member: 24452"] [b]Gimp Magic[/b] That says it all... We were running around with machine gun archmages and this "thing" came along :( You may criticize Gygax prose all you want, I could pick up my 1E DMG or my PHB and just read them with pleasure, awkwardness and all. There were strange areas. And a 1E DMG STILL has more text than a 3.5 one (word for word, given the font size, tinier art, and much savvier contents). Basically, it had soul, whereas 2e seemed contrived by the wrong people, and 3e / 3.5 has the most horrendous dull repetitive blatantly normalized PC texts I've read... They may somehow satisfy a need for even-handedness in rules writing, but I've seen legal texts that had more punch (read a few decisions by more opinionated judges and you will have to agree). 2e ecologies were a foray into rational explanations a fantasy game should not need. Wanna know where monsters come from? When children eat sweets before going to bed, or when they have nightmares, the world seizes upon their dreams, infuses them with magic and drops a monstrous being somewhere.... That explains the variety. Still play 3.5 though, but we're talking about IT (the return to 1e)... 3.5 is awful system for modules and protracted for fights. We're talking about it.... :cool: [/QUOTE]

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