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Message: <blockquote data-quote="House_Of_Dexter" data-source="post: 8252827" data-attributes="member: 78005">I started playing D&D in '77 (white box edition)-slowly jumped into AD&D...heh because TSR was slow in releasing the books...Monster Manual in '77, PHB in '78, went to Gen Con XII to pick up the DMG in '79.  I ate everything I could of D&D in those days.  Judges Guild and Dragon magazine.  I left D&D when I moved away from our group in '87, so I missed the 2nd edition AD&D.  Dabbled a bit in 3.5 with one of my friends (didn't enjoy it...to rule-heavy for my taste).  Played 4th edition as a player, enjoyed myself, but it didn't really feel like D&D.  Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it more than 3.5.  My group disbanded and so I was again not playing D&D.  I started buying 5th edition rules about 5 years ago and liked what I read.  I still hadn't jump back in, but then something happened that changed everything.  My older daughter started playing 5th edition with her friends.  She was really enjoying herself, her enthusiasm was contagious.  I decided to host a game as DM for some of her friends, my wife, both my daughters.  We started with Curse of Strahd and really enjoyed ourselves.  When we finished Strahd, we started up Princes of the Apocalypse, which we are currently playing.  We will probably finish it up in the next couple of months and move over to Rime of the Frostmaiden.Yes, I love the old D&D.  I also love 5th edition D&D.  WotC really did an excellent job of making an edition by going back to their roots but changing things that needed to be changed and keeping stuff that needed to be kept.  I love that we don't have THAC0.  I love the advantage/disadvantage system.  I love that we don't have to dig down through multiple books to find all those multiple modifiers.  I like the idea that AC on monsters and PC are soft capped at 22, and 25 on epic monsters.  Happy that they got rid of DR.  I love at-will spells(from 4th edition) made the cut as cantrips.  That we don't have tables for everything.If I had to describe myself and my D&D style.  I'm an RAI type of guy and really don't understand these RAW types(must be holdovers from 3.5).I wonder if what Grognards miss is that initial magic of playing D&D and look fondly back with rose-colored glasses.  The first time you stuck your head against the door and listened to what was behind it.  The surprise of opening that chest and finding that mimic.  Having to split some monster from head to tail to get that gem that was in his stomach.  That worry that anything could kill you, because yes we all pretty much had glass jaws (especially mages with their 1d4 hit dice and Thieves with 1d6 hit dice).  Having negative hit points was pretty much death unless you hit 0 hit points exactly, none of my players in the old days had access to Raise Dead.  I wonder how many dice rolls were fudged by DM's in the old days to keep from having TPK's.  Leveling was pretty slow unless you ran with a Monty Hall group.  Yes, I miss some of them, but by and large, I like the direction that WotC has directed 5th Edition D&D.</blockquote>

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