The Poll

[Wombat]

...aaaaaaand....

I'm the outsider as per usual.

Then again, this is primarily a D&D board. And that is fine, too.

 

[Korgoth]

Representing Old School.

 

[joethelawyer]

I had to go with the option that included AD&D. Even though we play the 3.x rules, AD&D is where my heart is.

 

[El Mahdi]

I agree with mikesomebody

Poll mascot.
Bonus points (XP) to the first to name the type of jet in the closing sequence

A Tornado GR1 (although I can't tell whether it's just a straight GR1, a GR1A, or GR1B from the movie - if I had a BlueRay player I might be able to see it with better resolution - I guess it's certainly possible though, that it could be a GR1B since they were stationed in Scotland at the time of the movie).

 

[wingsandsword]

3.5, definitely.

The earlier editions were fun, and I enjoyed my time playing 1e and 2e, and 3e, but 3.5 feels like the evolutionary peak of D&D. It combines a fun, stable, decently balanced engine with all the heritage and style and feel of decades of D&D and gaming-style assumptions that fit with the way I like to game. I couldn't go back to 1e or 2e for anything other than a brief nostalgic flashback without thinking "we could do so much better now" (and I'd probably even think it in the flashback, but be able to ignore it for a one-shot or something like that). 3.5 is not perfect, but it's a lot closer than any other edition before or since.

4e? No way. Compared to 3e it's like a Bizarro-clone that looks like D&D but gets everything wrong, or some weird evolutionary offshoot that looks like it also descended from the same distant ancestors but is only barely recognizable now. If you like it, go have fun with it, but it's not The One as far as I'm concerned.

Non D&D/Non-D20? Naah. I've had fun with some of those systems (New WoD, d6 Star Wars, and LUG Trek come to mind), and some of them are pretty dang good, but if there can be only one, then I'll go with 3.5.

 

[Ahnehnois]

The Toolbox. 3.5

Flawed beyond description but nonetheless it is the pinnacle of rpgs.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I think the question is, "Will you vote to start an edition war or not?"

 

[Merlin's Shadow]

I had to go 3.5. It's my favorite version of D&D and with the addition of the options provided by the OGL it just can't be beaten. Really. No matter what you say. Don't even try.

 

[Rolflyn]

I am currently obsessed with FATE 3.0. So flexible. So fun. Free. And I get to be pretentious and play an indie game.

Hey, me too. But I voted 3rd edition D&D because the FATE obsession is very recent.

 

[mach1.9pants]

A Tornado GR1 (although I can't tell whether it's just a straight GR1, a GR1A, or GR1B from the movie - if I had a BlueRay player I might be able to see it with better resolution - I guess it's certainly possible though, that it could be a GR1B since they were stationed in Scotland at the time of the movie).

A Winner of the Poll....but it won['t let me give you XP sorry, it says I have already given you some and I need to spread the love