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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3320250" data-attributes="member: 22779">Y'know, I hear this a lot.&nbsp; That 2e drove players away.&nbsp; Yet, by the time 2e came out, the players were already gone.&nbsp; The fad that was DnD had ended years before 2e hit the stores.&nbsp; I think that 2e gets a very bad rap for somehow driving a stake into the hobby.&nbsp; The hobby was already shrinking pretty rapidly by the time 2e pops up.Heck, I know that at Purple Dragon (the University of Western Ontario) gaming club, everyone had moved on to 2e with nary a murmur.&nbsp; The gaming stores I went to also featured very regular 2e games.&nbsp; I didn't even know that people even played 1e anymore until I discovered the internet.&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=":)" />But, really, I think it has been said best that those who didn't move on to 2e either got out of the hobby or stuck with earlier editions to this day while those who moved on from 1e saw 3e as a very natural progression of the game.&nbsp; 2e pretty much had its legs cut out from under it because 3e's ruleset is much tighter and 1e appeals better to the old school gamers.On another point, Gregk, you actually liked the Complete Priest?&nbsp; Good grief, I thought it was a complete waste of dead trees.&nbsp; Let's take the 2e priest, which isn't an unbalanced class on its own, nerf it hard to the point where the class is pretty much useless and then try to tell everyone that this is how priests should be.&nbsp; And then, let's completely contradict that with Faiths and Avatars, which turns priests into ungodly monstrocities.&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="Hussar, post: 3320250, member: 22779"] Y'know, I hear this a lot. That 2e drove players away. Yet, by the time 2e came out, the players were already gone. The fad that was DnD had ended years before 2e hit the stores. I think that 2e gets a very bad rap for somehow driving a stake into the hobby. The hobby was already shrinking pretty rapidly by the time 2e pops up. Heck, I know that at Purple Dragon (the University of Western Ontario) gaming club, everyone had moved on to 2e with nary a murmur. The gaming stores I went to also featured very regular 2e games. I didn't even know that people even played 1e anymore until I discovered the internet. :) But, really, I think it has been said best that those who didn't move on to 2e either got out of the hobby or stuck with earlier editions to this day while those who moved on from 1e saw 3e as a very natural progression of the game. 2e pretty much had its legs cut out from under it because 3e's ruleset is much tighter and 1e appeals better to the old school gamers. On another point, Gregk, you actually liked the Complete Priest? Good grief, I thought it was a complete waste of dead trees. Let's take the 2e priest, which isn't an unbalanced class on its own, nerf it hard to the point where the class is pretty much useless and then try to tell everyone that this is how priests should be. And then, let's completely contradict that with Faiths and Avatars, which turns priests into ungodly monstrocities. :) [/QUOTE]

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