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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8216815" data-attributes="member: 86653"><p>B/X. It was my first. Even though AD&D was out and super popular. They were the only books my older brother would let me touch. Loved the art and writing. Smooth, simple, and quick. The rules are just suggestions and anything not covered by the rules make a save or roll under an ability score. And the Known World. Mystara to you youngens. So wonderful and pulpy and goofy.</p><p></p><p>AD&D. Played this one the most. Had a hand typed packet of house rules for things like skills, dodge, and parry. My once shiny new books are now ancient, decaying tomes. So many memories.</p><p></p><p>2E. Skipped the edition rules and kept playing AD&D...but holy hell the settings. These books still hold up and inspire today. Al-Qadim, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Spelljammer. These settings are what got me started collecting. I wanted to know everything about these places.</p><p></p><p>3E. Read the rules and liked a few of the changes, like ascending AC, but largely ignored it and kept playing AD&D.</p><p></p><p>4E. I fell in love with literally everything they did with this edition...except how it actually played at the table. I loved the lore changes, the points-of-light setting, big magic rituals for everyone, residuum, solving linear fighter vs quadratic wizard, roles, power sources, powers, layout, design, monster variety, monster stat blocks, monster roles, MM3 on a business card, the DMGs were amazing...I loved <em>literally</em> everything they did with this edition...except for how it actually played. We played from the start to the finish with this one but could never get a simple combat to be anything less than a multiple hour slog. We tried everything and nothing ever worked. If only they revised the combat rules for speed of play.</p><p></p><p>5E. The quickest and simplest edition WotC has produced. Tossed everything I hated (and loved) about 4E. I like that D&D is having a cultural moment again. And this is the edition our second generation started with. Me and my brothers grew up on B/X and AD&D and now our kids are playing 5E with us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8216815, member: 86653"] B/X. It was my first. Even though AD&D was out and super popular. They were the only books my older brother would let me touch. Loved the art and writing. Smooth, simple, and quick. The rules are just suggestions and anything not covered by the rules make a save or roll under an ability score. And the Known World. Mystara to you youngens. So wonderful and pulpy and goofy. AD&D. Played this one the most. Had a hand typed packet of house rules for things like skills, dodge, and parry. My once shiny new books are now ancient, decaying tomes. So many memories. 2E. Skipped the edition rules and kept playing AD&D...but holy hell the settings. These books still hold up and inspire today. Al-Qadim, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Spelljammer. These settings are what got me started collecting. I wanted to know everything about these places. 3E. Read the rules and liked a few of the changes, like ascending AC, but largely ignored it and kept playing AD&D. 4E. I fell in love with literally everything they did with this edition...except how it actually played at the table. I loved the lore changes, the points-of-light setting, big magic rituals for everyone, residuum, solving linear fighter vs quadratic wizard, roles, power sources, powers, layout, design, monster variety, monster stat blocks, monster roles, MM3 on a business card, the DMGs were amazing...I loved [I]literally[/I] everything they did with this edition...except for how it actually played. We played from the start to the finish with this one but could never get a simple combat to be anything less than a multiple hour slog. We tried everything and nothing ever worked. If only they revised the combat rules for speed of play. 5E. The quickest and simplest edition WotC has produced. Tossed everything I hated (and loved) about 4E. I like that D&D is having a cultural moment again. And this is the edition our second generation started with. Me and my brothers grew up on B/X and AD&D and now our kids are playing 5E with us. [/QUOTE]
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