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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 4069230" data-attributes="member: 5100">I liked 1E.  Granted, it was a cornucopia of cobbled subsystems.  It was also a house-ruler's joy.  Over all, there were some issues and oddities with it (rangers got heavy armor and no stealth?), but the system was pretty good.I did not like 2E.  It would probably be fair to say that I never did actually play 2E.  I spent 4 years playing a 1.5E and borrowing things from 2E that made sense -- adjustable thief skills, ranger stealth -- and ignoring things that didn't -- ranger w/ TWF = WTF.  The (as someone else put it) "slash and burn" mentality of TSR during that time period helped to drive me away from what I already considered a problematic system.I came back to 3E and played it for almost as long as I played 1E (not counting the 1.5 bits).  I liked it, as a player.  I had some great flexibility in character options, and they kept getting better.  I hated anything over level 8-10, as a GM.  The NPC construction and balancing of adventures were too time consuming and fragile.  I couldn't just eyeball it the way I could 1E.I'm looking forward to 4E.  The promise is that the players will get the advantages of 3E, and then some, while the DM gets the ease of 1E.  I definitely don't expect the DM side to be quite that easy, but it should be an improvement.  We'll have to wait and see.</blockquote>