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

[payn]

I might have done this anyway; it's impossible to be sure, but it's probably because I've owned an FLGS since I was 19 years old that I only ever play the current version of anything. Once a new one is out, I never go back. Not once.

Not even when I liked the old one better.

Is part of that being up to date on the talk so you can sell the products?

 

[Voadam]

Vampire the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition, which is a collation of stuff from Vampire the Masquerade Revised. This is me as a player as I have never run it but our group specifically chose this over Vampire the Requiem (despite the storyteller liking aspects of Requiem) and then again later over Vampire the Masquerade 5e.

We were all familiar with the old vampire rules and the Masquerade tropes like specific clans and such. While the storyteller liked the Requiem generation varying stuff from Requiem, for our group it was not worth it to abandon the VtM World of Darkness type lore (although Prometheus the Created ended up in the game anyway alongside Werewolf the Apocalypse tribes and Mage the Ascension conventions).

Again later when we did vampire again we had a couple hardcopies of the 20th anniversary rules, we were familiar with them, and no one wanted to get new 5e stuff or learn their new hunger mechanics or metaplot advancement.

Both times the storytellers did not want to be in places with existing sourcebooks (Like Chicago) or use any existing NPCs, but they wanted the existing backdrops of different clans and powers and the familiar rules.