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<blockquote data-quote="runtime" data-source="post: 2636518" data-attributes="member: 35994">Why not Basic D&amp;D?If simplicity and nostaglia are so important, then why stop at 1E AD&amp;D? Why not Basic D&amp;D (BD&amp;D)? I played BD&amp;D and a little AD&amp;D in junior high. When I got into 3.5E last year, I bought some old BD&amp;D books on eBay. Yes, they are simple, but there is a reason when WotC revved the edition to 3E: the old rules are hapazard and imbalanced (and to increase sales <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. The 3.5E rules are much more balanced, though formulaic. In fact, I've been toying with the idea of creating a 3.5E rules engine &quot;oracle&quot; using Prolog/whatever for rules lawyers to query or programmatically discover rule contradictions, but that's a discussion for another day.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />On the other end of the simplicity spectrum, I've been reading the HackMaster books. They are a good read, but my friends have too much time/money invested in 3.5E books to bother playing HackMaster.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="runtime, post: 2636518, member: 35994"] [b]Why not Basic D&D?[/b] If simplicity and nostaglia are so important, then why stop at 1E AD&D? Why not Basic D&D (BD&D)? I played BD&D and a little AD&D in junior high. When I got into 3.5E last year, I bought some old BD&D books on eBay. Yes, they are simple, but there is a reason when WotC revved the edition to 3E: the old rules are hapazard and imbalanced (and to increase sales :). The 3.5E rules are much more balanced, though formulaic. In fact, I've been toying with the idea of creating a 3.5E rules engine "oracle" using Prolog/whatever for rules lawyers to query or programmatically discover rule contradictions, but that's a discussion for another day.. :) On the other end of the simplicity spectrum, I've been reading the HackMaster books. They are a good read, but my friends have too much time/money invested in 3.5E books to bother playing HackMaster. [/QUOTE]

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