Poll: 1E or 2E?

[Grazzt]

1e all the way

 

[Mark Hope]

I also uncovered by old 'Keep on the Borderlands' module for 1st Ed, and reading through it has made me realize how strange that system was.

Heh, not least because it wasn't for 1e. It was for Basic D&D.

 

[drothgery]

If I really had to, 2e; I actually played that one back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, err, I was in college. But I'd run 3e before 2e (I'd just start at level 5 and finish before level 15), and SWSE or 4e before 3e.

 

[Ruslanchik]

OD&D(1974) is the only true game. All the other editions are just poor imitations of the real thing.

If Elf is not a class, it is not DnD!

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Haven't played 1e, so I'm definitely biased, and maybe I'd like it better. But 2e, for all its horrors that 3e fixed, still had alot going for it, and some cool settings. I loved the variant class kits. They were simple to use, and often changed a character class to a completely different flavor. Baldur's Gate 2, based on 2e rules, is also still my favorite D&D game ever.

 

[GeorgeFields]

I loved both editions.

If I were going to run straight core it would be 2e.

If I were going to toss in some house rules or pull something from another game into it, I'd run 1e and add the specialty priests from 2e into the mix.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

OD&D(1974) is the only true game. All the other editions are just poor imitations of the real thing.

[h2]ALL HAIL LORD DIAGLUS[/h2]

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Give me 2E.
Where else could a 3rd level wizard kill a 20th level fighter or beholder with one swift strike?

(Gemidon's Paralytic Missile, 2nd level, Waterdeep City of Splendors Boxed Set, save is allowed for half DURATION of paralysis, auto-kill spell far better than Power Word Kill.)

But no, really, 1E and 2E were great games, are great games, and always will be great games.
Throw in a lot of 3E goodness (especially those 6 second combat rounds, in my book) and you've got something that is really cool.

 

[Dragonhelm]

Or, the other option...

Play a hybrid of 1e/2e. That's what I did back in the day. One of the things I liked about 2e was that it was backwards-compatible. If you take the dungeons of 1e and the settings of 2e, you've got a pretty good mix.

 

[Delta]

If Elf is not a class, it is not DnD!

Common misconception. In OD&D races & classes are separate -- elves are inherently multiclassed fighter/magic-users. (Only in Basic D&D were they collapsed together.)