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<blockquote data-quote="Evilhalfling" data-source="post: 1746995" data-attributes="member: 16991">Started with basic, and had a blast, looking up rules while playing never occured to me and much sillyness insued - lots of 1-2 session games, two player games and an accidental slide into advanced D&amp;D with the Monster Manual.Pre-High School - 1st ed added a multitude of strange rules, mostly I rember ignoring large parts of the system - weapon vs AC modifiers, suprise modifiers, iniative speeds, never played an assasin, monk or illusionist, the ability requirements were too high.&nbsp; Lots of abuse of psionics.&nbsp; and looking up tables, the hit charts, the saveingthrow charts, the thief charts, etc.... Expert/masters/compaion D&amp;D still remembered as a great focus on running a kingdom rather than dungeon crawling, I loved the complexity of the gazateers - New rules croping up in suprising places, like red arrow black shield and detailed castle servants wages in some random modual.High School - College 2ed D&amp;D - my longest running campaigns, well attendend, regualr group of players.&nbsp; The profieceny system gave charaters skills outside the dungeons, all ridiculously easy to use, I played most of the rules as written.&nbsp; It had very detailed society and ecology rules of all the monsters in those big Binders - the mage was forever harvesting monster pieces.&nbsp; My first homebrewed worlds were&nbsp; 2nd ed and Darksun was violent and nutty - with even more psionic abuse.&nbsp; Magic items had a better feel, rare, but not uncommon for a really powerful item to fall into the hands of midlevel adventures - Leveling was tough and a three year campaign got to 9th level. I ignored the skills and powers stuff compleatly - It felt like a bad cartoon Post College 3rd - streamlined rules, more logical, but more arguments over shades of meaning.&nbsp; combat has more of a wargame feel to it.&nbsp; Battlemaps are necesary The positives- much better flexable PCs - skills that have both use and meaning.&nbsp;&nbsp; 3rd is a player driven system in a lot of ways.&nbsp; My stage of life was wrapped up in each edition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Evilhalfling, post: 1746995, member: 16991"] Started with basic, and had a blast, looking up rules while playing never occured to me and much sillyness insued - lots of 1-2 session games, two player games and an accidental slide into advanced D&D with the Monster Manual. Pre-High School - 1st ed added a multitude of strange rules, mostly I rember ignoring large parts of the system - weapon vs AC modifiers, suprise modifiers, iniative speeds, never played an assasin, monk or illusionist, the ability requirements were too high. Lots of abuse of psionics. and looking up tables, the hit charts, the saveingthrow charts, the thief charts, etc.... Expert/masters/compaion D&D still remembered as a great focus on running a kingdom rather than dungeon crawling, I loved the complexity of the gazateers - New rules croping up in suprising places, like red arrow black shield and detailed castle servants wages in some random modual. High School - College 2ed D&D - my longest running campaigns, well attendend, regualr group of players. The profieceny system gave charaters skills outside the dungeons, all ridiculously easy to use, I played most of the rules as written. It had very detailed society and ecology rules of all the monsters in those big Binders - the mage was forever harvesting monster pieces. My first homebrewed worlds were 2nd ed and Darksun was violent and nutty - with even more psionic abuse. Magic items had a better feel, rare, but not uncommon for a really powerful item to fall into the hands of midlevel adventures - Leveling was tough and a three year campaign got to 9th level. I ignored the skills and powers stuff compleatly - It felt like a bad cartoon Post College 3rd - streamlined rules, more logical, but more arguments over shades of meaning. combat has more of a wargame feel to it. Battlemaps are necesary The positives- much better flexable PCs - skills that have both use and meaning. 3rd is a player driven system in a lot of ways. My stage of life was wrapped up in each edition. [/QUOTE]

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