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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 9579136" data-attributes="member: 42040">AD&D 2nd edition is at my nostalgic core for TTRPGs. It was my first edition. It was the one game that I felt got "yanked out" from me when my players demanded we upgrade to a very different 3rd edition. It was the home of my longest and most "meaningful" campaign (in case you're wondering, it served as the catharsis as my players and I navigated entering adulthood and the death of a friend) - in short, it was our "Stand By Me" experience. I am still best friends with the players from that group 25+ years later ... even though we have moved hours apart. So when I say I loved 2nd Edition AD&D and the nostalgia of it, I really mean that.In Chris Perkin's recent interview with Stan!, he claimed that 5e was the descendent of 2nd edition. As I bemoan on online forums that there isn't a good modernized update of 2nd edition (as Old School Essentials does for B/X), people say "you've got 5e - that's the 2nd edition retroclone." However, 5e has been a struggle for me and it feels very different from 2e. Here's a list of differences between 5e and 2e that I think keep 5e from delivering on 2e feel...Overnight full heal.Easy access to healing magic (ESPECIALLY Healing Word).No stat requirements to qualify for "rare" classes (Bard, Druid, Paladin, etc.).Bonus actions.HP bloat.Bounded accuracy. Monster damage resistances and spell resistances being inconsequential.Monster special attacks not being threatening (Mummy Rot, Lycanthropy, etc.)No specialty priests or specialist wizards.Some differences, such as positive AC I think are good changes and don't really detract from the feel anyway. What do you think? Do you think 5e feels like 2nd edition? Do you see any other differences? What are the similarities?</blockquote>

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