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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 8249343" data-attributes="member: 6895991">Well simple reply, it did not peak in the 70s, but with 2e, in the 90s.By chance thats the time i got into pen and paper, coaxed by the EOB series. I had some gold box games, for the C64 Computer before, and i read some books but that is what started it for me.5e is the best edition for Pen and Paper so far, but some aspects of modern RP do really bugger me.That is the communism like balancing out coming from Online MMPORPG (which ironically would not exist without D&D) , were it was sometimes  very essential in contrast to pen and paper.3e tried to cure many things of basic, 1e, 2e,  using things like upward AC and rolls, but bloated the game so much that it was impractical to use oat the table (mulitple buffs etc.)4e tried to learn from the MMPORGs and tried to balance it all out by using strict metrics. But that slowed down things even more.5e was my reentry into playing the game (I skipped 3e and 4e for non computer D&D), but i miss some possibilities of the old times, well not really, there are methods i use to include them into 5e.I like restricting (classes, races, equipment, available spells), to give the game world a certain feel, but i have not found out yet, how to e.g. properly limit some maximum spell level achievable by a class (e.g. limit cleric spells to 5th level), without severely nerfing the class at higher char level and thus make it unattractive to my players.Nevertheless BA, advantage/disadvantage and concentration mechanics are some of the best  innovations of 5e and one might ask why they did not invent these things earlyer.</blockquote>

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