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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warunsun" data-source="post: 6275150" data-attributes="member: 6688054">I don't miss anything from first edition. Or second edition. Or third edition. Or revised third edition. Or fourth edition. The reason is I still have my books and can play the old editions anytime I can find enough people willing to do it. I am still happily Dungeon Mastering a fourth edition campaign--actually two campaigns. One campaign is winding down and the final session will be this Saturday. The other campaign is fairly young and the player characters are 4th level and it should continue throughout the summer.When the higher-level campaign ends this weekend the group has decided to give Castles & Crusades a try. I personally have wanted to run a nostalgic retrograde first edition campaign for a long while--over 2 years. But I wasn't able to convince enough players to give it a fair go-around. Last month or so the Troll Lords had a great sale and I was able to talk folks into giving Castles & Crusades a try. While C&C is new to them it really isn't all that new. It is fairly compatible with first edition but a lot simpler at the same time. A few minor changes you can make in your head and you can run old AD&D adventures and use old AD&D supplements with it. I am pretty happy. It is both a new thing with some new ideas and a familiar old thing at the same time. I will have my nostalgic campaign. Several character are even using traditional multi-classing (1e/2e style). Fifth edition even has some commonality with C&C since 5E reflects a lot of older edition stuff.The players wanted to play Forgotten Realms since we haven't used the world in a long time. We selected the time frame of AD&D Second Edition boxed sets and source-books for the Forgotten Realms campaign (post avatar crisis) and I will get a lot of use out of many of my older D&D materials. Plus I can also purchase PDFs at DnDClassics.com if I don't have the original source.It is a good time to be a D&D fan. Nearly every edition printed in hard copies the last several years plus PDFs and many compatible games out there. And a new edition on the horizon.The only thing Wizards could do better in my opinion is do Print-On-Demand copies of the core rulebooks for all the old editions through DnDClassics.com and sell the main PDFs for the ones still missing.</blockquote>

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