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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4545843" data-attributes="member: 29398">This.  For the win.And, the best part for me about 1e (or 0e, for that matter) was the very thing some here seem to want to deride: its malleability.  If something didn't work in the game system for you, you *could* kitbash it into shape - or at least try - as it was generally loose enough that the knock-on effects of such changes as you made weren't likely to slaughter your game.I mean, hell, the game I run today started out as 1e, only it's now had getting on for 30 years worth of kitbashing done to it; it's only vaguely recognizable now, and that process is not over yet.  And for some reason, people still seem to want to play it...Don't like ExP for g.p.?  Change it.  Don't agree with racial level limits, or with some of the racial abilities?  Change them, or lose them.  Don't like the initiative system?  Fix it.  And so on.  It really doesn't matter if what I play in Victoria is the same as what someone else plays in Winnipeg or a third group plays in Pittsburgh, as long as the games are fun.I never tried tinkering with 2e, though I swiped a few things from it.  I've seen some good attempts made to tinker with 3e but the system there is so tight that changing one thing inevitably screws up somethng else.  4e looks at first glance to be somewhat more malleable - one could, for example, probably divorce oneself from the grid (but not from use of minis; I have no problem with that) and squares as measurement and firecubes without wrecking the game at all.Someone in here last night put up a post asking pretty much what would you take from each edition to build the best overall system; one of 1e's contributions here would have to be its flexibility.Lanefan</blockquote>

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