Starting a 1E campaign tomorrow, the Temple of Elemental Evil!

[Falstaff]

Has anyone else played any 1E lately, as a break from 3E or otherwise? I mean, I now lots of people still play 1E, and I certainly don't begrudge them their preference. We'll be returning to our main 3E campaign eventually, but for now we're going to do a good old school 1E dungeon stomp!

Yes - our group (after frustration with the current version of D&D), returned to AD&D. We have one campaign going right now where I am playing a halfling thief. There are five players in our group and our ages average around 35 years old.

I will be starting up my own campaign soon, using only the core 1st ed. books.

We are having a blast and now after having played 3.5 for a while and returning to AD&D, I understand what E. Gary Gygax means when he says,

Originally Posted by E Gary Gygax:
The new D&D is too rule intensive. It's relegated the Dungeon Master to being an entertainer rather than master of the game. It's done away with the archetypes, focused on nothing but combat and character power, lost the group cooperative aspect, bastardized the class-based system, and resembles a comic-book superheroes game more than a fantasy RPG...

cheers and happy gaming!