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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 8636146" data-attributes="member: 32740">Problem is that it requires a REALLY long answer (which is always certain to include a great deal of personal bias and preference), or a really short one that can't possibly explain the differences fully and clearly.  The best way to really get a feel for the degree of difference and in what ways, is to not ask others to explain it, but to read the 1E rules and compare them to 2E yourself.  You'll see 1E has rules that 2E doesn't; rules that 2E changed; rules that 2E added that 1E doesn't have; and how the writing itself changed in style - from one guy addressing others his own age to a group of contributors addressing readers whom they assume to be much younger than themselves (or if they ARE as old as themselves that the authors aren't addressing them as players but as parents of the players, and therefore have to reassure them that there's nothing INAPPROPRIATE or morally dangerous about the game), and so on.  And yet the two editions are similar enough in key mechanical ways that there is virtually NO alteration needed to use any materials from one within the other.</blockquote>