What RPG(s) did you stick with an earlier edition?

[Bill Zebub]

If I were still playing The One Ring, it would absolutely be 1st edition.

 

[Fenris-77]

The first two editions of WHFRP are still my favorites. The tone and feel is different, grimmer and grittier (dirtier?), than some of the newer editions, although there are some fantastic sourcebooks there as well.

 

[dragoner]

As someone who’s only read and run Mongoose Traveller 2e, what makes it lesser in comparison? Just too verbose? I’ve heard several people lately preferring Classic Traveller.

I really like mongoose character generation, and damage reduction armor, are good additions to the Traveller repertoire. However the subsystems such as spacecraft, easily in big separate books, which is not bad, though to a different taste if one does not want to do as much work. Such as also, say for combat, one gets a lot of +/- modifiers, and for Classic it is simply fewer of them.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The first two editions of WHFRP are still my favorites. The tone and feel is different, grimmer and grittier (dirtier?), than some of the newer editions, although there are some fantastic sourcebooks there as well.

100%. They completely lost me with that 3e boxed set. Speaking of Warhammer, I was always more of a fan of the Dark Heresy games than the later editions.

 

[Fenris-77]

100%. They completely lost me with that 3e boxed set. Speaking of Warhammer, I was always more of a fan of the Dark Heresy games than the later editions.

It is good. Imperium Maledictum is also fantastic. I might even prefer it for Inquisition play. The other offerings there miss the mark for me a little.

 

[DammitVictor]

I want to say AD&D 2e, but I switched up to 3.0 and 3.5 and PF1. I got  back into AD&D (well, BECMI + AD&D) afterwards.

But Pathfinder 1e is one of those games. Never cottoned to the three action economy and it just seemed like a lot to relearn and... for the most part I always like 3PP Pathfinder content better. (No shade; my favorite 3PP is by former Paizo staff.)

Love Gamma World 4e and Gamma World 5e, depending on my mood. I'm not still all up in my feels about 6e and 7e, but I still have no use for the former and the latter is a one shot only game for me. (A lot of the worldbuilding in d20 is still pretty great, and 7e was very innovative in ways that don't suit my preferences.)

Shadowrun 4 is where I stopped, but I'm reacquiring my SR3. Don't really have any interest in 5 or 6, even if I haven't heard mostly bad things about them.

They're really separate games, but I vastly prefer Marvel Heroic Roleplaying to either Sentinel Comics RPG or Marvel Multiverse RPG, though I've got  everythingfor the latter and recommend them as top-shelf sourcebooks for  any kind of Marvel roleplaying.

Barely,  barely even counts... but I prefer Rokugan as a 3.X D&D campaign setting to L5R proper. Mostly because it's easier to fold, spindle, and mutilate into homebrew settings. Still wish that I could afford to get 4e in print.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Barely,  barely even counts... but I prefer Rokugan as a 3.X D&D campaign setting to L5R proper. Mostly because it's easier to fold, spindle, and mutilate into homebrew settings. Still wish that I could afford to get 4e in print.

I was fortunate in that I was actively collecting L5R as it was being released, from 1e in the late '90s all the way through the end of 4e when they sold the IP to Fantasy Flight, including the WotC-owned era. I've got the entire collection for that period.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’m an unabashed HEROphile, and while I purchased the stuff subsequent to 4Ed, it was the last edition to get serious gameplay. So I’d probably use 4Ed if asked to run something.

For a LOT of reasons, 3.5Ed is my favorite version of D&D. I’ve played 4Ed- bought all the player-centric books, but I’ve never run it and never will. 5Ed I didn’t even touch.

I bought 1Ed & 2Ed Mutants & Masterminds, and didn’t see much point in buying the newer stuff.

Then there’s stuff I didn’t continue with because of my gaming groups.

I never got past GURPS 2Ed because I was no longer in a group that played GURPS.

I have a bunch of 1Ed WoD material, plus Cook’s NWoD, but never got to play with any of it beyond using it for inspiration, especially during the GURPS: VtM playtest.

Etc.

OTOH, lack of interested players didn’t stop me from continuing to buy new Traveller or Paranoia! products across editions.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I’m an unabashed HEROphile, and while I purchased the stuff subsequent to 4Ed, it was the last edition to get serious gameplay. So I’d probably use 4Ed if asked to run something.

For a LOT of reasons, 3.5Ed is my favorite version of D&D. I’ve played 4Ed- bought all the player-centric books, but I’ve never run it and never will. 5Ed I didn’t even touch.

I bought 1Ed & 2Ed Mutants & Masterminds, and didn’t see much point in buying the newer stuff.

Then there’s stuff I didn’t continue with because of my gaming groups.

I never got past GURPS 2Ed because I was no longer in a group that played GURPS.

I have a bunch of 1Ed WoD material, plus Cook’s NWoD, but never got to play with any of it beyond using it for inspiration, especially during the GURPS: VtM playtest.

Etc.

OTOH, lack of interested players didn’t stop me from continuing to buy new Traveller or Paranoia! products across editions.

A lot of it has to do with investment I think, both in material and time. I have nearly the entire 3e run of Mutants and Masterminds, and have been collecting, playing and reading for years, and am therefore unlikely to abandon all that and move on to 4e when it officially releases. For L5R, lore and design philosophy played a big part too (the newer editions are far too narrativist for me, and they rebooted the lore). Sometimes it's best just to call the game complete as far as you're concerned and work with what you've got.

 

[SteveC]

Well, we're sticking with 5E over 5.5 so that's one.

I also am not a fan of the latest CoC, so earlier editions for that too.