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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pr1" data-source="post: 4293630" data-attributes="member: 69240">My experiences playing late 3.5 edition (as of last fall) and hearing about 4e pushed me back to playing 1st edition.  The thing that had kept me semi-optimistic about 3.5 is trying to run Goodman Games' line of modules.  I quit the last group I played in because they were running a whole campaign around Stormwrack, with pirates and whale people and... that's just really cheesy to me -- no offense to those guys or people who like that sort of thing is intended.  After hearing about 4th edition and all of that, I just decided to be that contrarian consumer and I bought the 1st edition core books.  I didn't even play 1st edition as a kid, I played 2nd ed!But whatever.  The thing is, I like Megaman 2 (and to a lesser extent, Megaman 1) and NES Super Marios better than their 3D cousins.  It's just more fun to me.  Part of my problem with 4th edition (and 3rd) is that.The other part of it is the art.  I just don't get what people like about slick, anime-style art for a fantasy roleplaying game that was invented in the 70s.  Again, to me, Marvel and DC took a real nose-dive with the same artistic trend I see in contemporary comics.  Again, that's what I really liked about Goodman Games products.  But even their previews for their new stuff looks kind of cheesy, and I don't know how much they're going to support 4.0.I don't really care about the rules (although swarm monsters? dragonborn?  At a glance, that seems really lame, but I don't know much about it, and to each his or her own anyway), because I think most players and DMs are able to make the rules work for pretty much whatever type of game they actually want to run.  If it matters, I thought 3rd edition was a very balanced rules set; I don't know that much about 4th.  But I really don't care, either.  1st edition, some of 2nd ed. (IMHO before Skills & Powers and all of that nonsense), basic editions, etc., capture the feel of D&D better, and I know that there will always be people whose interests are more about running the type of game I want to run than the average 4e player who are playing 1st & 2nd editions.So no hostility here.  I just don't think I'm that interested in 4e.</blockquote>

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