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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diaglo" data-source="post: 2232331" data-attributes="member: 2885">the shift from OD&D to 1edADnD began in print with Supplement I Greyhawk and the release of The Strategic Review...what it did was place more emphasis on stats and number crunching to gain the advantage.you got +1 or -1 pre-Supplement I.all hps were d6 for all classes. all weapons did d6 damage.as you introduced fighting men doing +3 to hit and +5 damage in Supplement I and so on... suddenly you had to introduce more things that gave these huge stat boosts.magic items became the important thing... and now the only thing important if you talk to some people.massive damage ranges for spells. automatic hits with magic missile...bah...what i didn't like about 1edADnD.... it took much of the fun of just roleplaying a character as a person... and made it a stat sheet. it took effort to go back to just treating your mini as a person again.each edition since has done basically the same thing. power thru numbers.</blockquote>