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<blockquote data-quote="Gorg" data-source="post: 8209754" data-attributes="member: 7029501">Interesting.&nbsp;&nbsp; My first experience was with the B/X sets and Keep on the Borderlands and Isle of dread.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was too poor, lol to buy and play ALL the adventures that came out then, but I did play some- like Village of Hommlet; and Ravenloft.&nbsp; &nbsp; Our middle school D&amp;D club also played Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh.&nbsp;&nbsp; Still, to this day, ANY adventure with that sort of cover makes my eyes light up!&nbsp;&nbsp; I know exactly what I'm looking at, and what kind of content it's likely to have.&nbsp; Since then, I've collected as many of those OG 1st ed AD&amp;D/ D&amp;D B/X modules as I could.&nbsp;&nbsp; When 3rd ed came out, and a 3rd party publisher started putting out Dungeon Crawl Classics with that style of cover, I bought those, too!&nbsp;&nbsp; Lots of good stuff in there.&nbsp; True, many were &quot;story lite&quot;, but so what?&nbsp; It just made it easier to incorporate them in whole or part into your own game.&nbsp;&nbsp; Frankly, I found them easier to use, with their separate covers, with the map on the inside- a bonus DM screen!- than the subsequent editions, with stapled on covers or today's hard covers.&nbsp;&nbsp; OTOH, when we taught my friend's wife and kids to play, 3rd ed was &quot;THE&quot; game.&nbsp;&nbsp; They learned to play with the linked adventures beginning with&nbsp; Sunless Citadel, and a few pulled from my Dungeon collection, as well as his homebrew adventures.&nbsp; (3rd ed was a wonderful time for Dungeon mag!!)&nbsp;&nbsp; So, they'll look back upon those days fondly as the good ol days, and that will be their version of D&amp;D.&nbsp; &nbsp; (well, that and all the wild stories of games past they grew up hearing from us!)&nbsp; Both are very different experiences, and both are equally valid. &nbsp; I can say that&nbsp; my buddy and I encountered a lot fewer rules arguments in our formative years than those learning 3rd ed and beyond.&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether due to our style of play, or the rulesets themselves who knows?&nbsp; &nbsp; 3rd ed WAS pretty crunchy, though- and could easily get confusing, if playing as theater of the mind as we do.&nbsp; &nbsp; I guess I'm lucky, in that none of the groups/people I played with were power-gamery; min/maxers; or rules lawyers.&nbsp;&nbsp; True, we liked our characters powerful, and loved our kewl loot- and relished a good brawl.&nbsp; But&nbsp; I was completely taken by surprise, reading about all the &quot;Broken&quot;; OP; or horribly abused stuff everyone was always railing about on the boards.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nothing like that ever happened in the games I played...&nbsp; We just didn't play like that, lol.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gorg, post: 8209754, member: 7029501"] Interesting. My first experience was with the B/X sets and Keep on the Borderlands and Isle of dread. I was too poor, lol to buy and play ALL the adventures that came out then, but I did play some- like Village of Hommlet; and Ravenloft. Our middle school D&D club also played Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. Still, to this day, ANY adventure with that sort of cover makes my eyes light up! I know exactly what I'm looking at, and what kind of content it's likely to have. Since then, I've collected as many of those OG 1st ed AD&D/ D&D B/X modules as I could. When 3rd ed came out, and a 3rd party publisher started putting out Dungeon Crawl Classics with that style of cover, I bought those, too! Lots of good stuff in there. True, many were "story lite", but so what? It just made it easier to incorporate them in whole or part into your own game. Frankly, I found them easier to use, with their separate covers, with the map on the inside- a bonus DM screen!- than the subsequent editions, with stapled on covers or today's hard covers. OTOH, when we taught my friend's wife and kids to play, 3rd ed was "THE" game. They learned to play with the linked adventures beginning with Sunless Citadel, and a few pulled from my Dungeon collection, as well as his homebrew adventures. (3rd ed was a wonderful time for Dungeon mag!!) So, they'll look back upon those days fondly as the good ol days, and that will be their version of D&D. (well, that and all the wild stories of games past they grew up hearing from us!) Both are very different experiences, and both are equally valid. I can say that my buddy and I encountered a lot fewer rules arguments in our formative years than those learning 3rd ed and beyond. Whether due to our style of play, or the rulesets themselves who knows? 3rd ed WAS pretty crunchy, though- and could easily get confusing, if playing as theater of the mind as we do. I guess I'm lucky, in that none of the groups/people I played with were power-gamery; min/maxers; or rules lawyers. True, we liked our characters powerful, and loved our kewl loot- and relished a good brawl. But I was completely taken by surprise, reading about all the "Broken"; OP; or horribly abused stuff everyone was always railing about on the boards. Nothing like that ever happened in the games I played... We just didn't play like that, lol. [/QUOTE]

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