Referendum on AD&D 2e

[Ibram]

I started playing under 2e (just before TSR went bankrupt) and I truly loved that game, and the people I gamed with... If the DM showed up (I havent seen him in a few years) and said he wanted to pick up where he left off I would jump at the chance, even if it ment returning to 2e.

Now as a DM I'll never run a 2e game because I only started DMing under 3e and its the only one I know.

 

[BOZ]

i never had a problem with 2E, in fact that's where i've done more D&D playing than anywhere else (although 3E is catching up). i'd play it, or 1E, or OD&D, or whatever, if someone really wanted to run that system, but i prefer not to confuse myself using retro rules.

 

[BOZ]

i also have no intention of DMing a campaign other than 3E again, though just for fun i may run a few sessions of one system or another.

 

[Kanegrundar]

No.

The only system changes I want to see from 3.x are more oppsed skill tests and possibly removing Attacks of Opportunity. In 2e we always played with at least five pages of house rules.

I sometimes wish I would have held onto my houserules bible. At it's biggest (a few things got weeded down with Player's Option series) it was easily 25 pages. IMO, any game that I have to houserule that much isn't worth my time.

With 3E I don't have any houserules, the only thing I have is a sheet listing all the variant rules used in the game from official or 3rd party sources.

Kane

 

[Stegger]

I voted yes, since I have only played 3/3.5 and would like to try the earlier editions to know what they were like to play.

 

[maddman75]

I would feel like I was in a straightjacket. No mechanical character development really, other than a few proficiencies. Can't decide to become a cleric or a rogue - that just seems so arbitrary and restrictive now. Not really interested. If you don't want to do 3e, let's play something else entirely.

 

[The_Universe]

Ahem... I am French and yet I don't understand the meaning of this phrase... I guess that people from other countries will have an ever harder time to get it. Hum, i don't want to be unpleasant in saying that though...


Anyway: concerning the topic at hand, i don't want to go back to AD&D 2e, though I did prefer the books in terms of layout and illustrations. I would be glad to try a Castle & Crusade campaign though...

French's is an American brand of Mustard.

 

[jeffh]

I said no way, but I would like to clarify that position.

Very few people, in my experience, have EVER played 2E, and not one person in the entire world, so far as I can tell, prefers 2E to 3E. Those sound like daring statements - and the first one looks obviously wrong - until you realize that when I say 2E (and 3E for that matter) I mean as written, using only core materials. Player's Option, in that reckoning, is not what I have in mind when I say 2E. Allowing enough stuff from the Complete XXX Handbook series makes a game not what I have in mind when I say 2E. And the heavily house-ruled "2E" games I know of that are still going on are definitely not what I have in mind when I say 2E.

For similar reasons I would say the game I am currently running is a borderline case when it comes to counting as 3E, and the game I am about to start definitely isn't 3E, though most of it is recognizably related to it.

By those admittedly very strict definitions, I wouldn't even consider playing in a 2E game. On the other hand, if enough of the things that bug my butt about 2e were house-ruled away or superceded by things like PO, I'd consider it.

 

[Atom Again]

It's interesting to note that although the majority of people replying to this thread have been outright venomous in their attacks on 2e, claiming that 2e raped their sister, assassinated JFK, and was responsible for the AIDS crisis, they are a minority of people in the poll...

That old "silent majority" thing; maybe there's something to that...

At any rate, continue voting, gentlemen.

 

[Bigwilly]

Sure

As others have said, with a good DM who the fook cares about the system. I've played everything from 1st edition Traveller (where your character can die during character creation) to Paranoia (where your character will die several times during the scenario) to Rulemaster (where YOU can die of old age before you finish creating a character).

Also, my first 'real' campaign was run using AD&D 2e (without all the splatbooks - I was a poor student and so were my friends) so I have fond memories. I am even using the same campaign world - at least the bits my addled brain can remember in my current 3.5e campaign. So sign me up!

Bigwilly, NSEDM