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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 1782432" data-attributes="member: 17551">None of the poll responses really fit me.I was a long-time B/X D&D/1e player and DM when 2e came out.  I really didn't like the changes to the core rules in 2e, but they were close enough to what I had been playing that I could adopt them partially.  In practice, I was playing a 1e/2e/B/X D&D mish-mash.The quality of TSR's 2e products just kept going down, down, down, and the count of mind-numbing splat books my players kept bringing to the table went up, up, up.  TSR seemed obsessed with bringing out new setting, supporting them briefly, then dropping them quickly for the next setting just as quickly.  They pretty much stopped making adventures for AD&D.  So by 1991 or 92, I dropped 2e altogether and stayed completely with what was then RC D&D.  When TSR dropped D&D in '93, they lost a customer; I never bought another thing from them until they went out of business.3e isn't my cup of tea either, but for different reasons.  I have more problems with 3e's core rules and more problems with 2e's peripheral items.  2e's core rules don't really inspire to want to game with them, but they don't leave me scratching my head the way 3e's do.  Or to put it another way...  2e is a crappy version of the game I like, and 3e is a completely different game.  So in that respect, I have a lot more respect for 3e than 2e.So long story short, I'd play any D&D (and pretty much any other RPG) with a good DM.  I would prefer to DM 1e or B/X D&D.  I'd DM 2e using only the core if someone put a gun to my head.  I wouldn't DM 3e.R.A.</blockquote>

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