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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 4069057" data-attributes="member: 1190">I tend to find that people like 1e because it was "the good old days" of D&D not because it had anything inherently positive about it. No one knew any better. There were no better games. It was mere years after fantasy role playing was created.Examined under the today's lens, 1e has little to nothing going for it.2e really can't be taken as all one edition, any more than 3e can. With Skills and Powers came a whole new set of pluses and minuses to be considered. Overall, 2e should have known better on a great number of things but then 2e wasn't released and sustained to support the game, but rather to earn certain people money. (Some will say that that is always the reason, but there is a difference between running a business and the "slash and burn" philosophy that powered much of 2e decision making.)so I agree with you...the analogy doesn't work. Anyway, its not that simple. We aren't really on the 4th edition (even though that is its name). There is the original (1), then simultaneously Advanced 1e D&D (2) and Basic D&D (3), 2e (4), 2e Skills & Powers (5), 3e (6), 3.5 (7), and now 4e (8).DC</blockquote>