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

[Micah Sweet]

7th sea 1ed - i read 2ed and just nope. Changes are so radical, they are esentially 2 different games that just share name and setting

Same. The setting isn't the same between editions either, not really. They made a lot of lore changes. That whole Kickstarter very much felt like a bait and switch to me. I ended up only really appreciating the 1e pdf collection.

 

[kronovan]

Star Trek Adventures. My players really like the Challenge Dice and 2nd edition doesn't use them. Not to mention in my country a set of STA dice cost a fair amount of $s, so I wasn't so keen on tossing them out.

 

[DammitVictor]

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.) [...] 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.

Feel like I should note, that between these two passages... I'm also describing how I run D&D/PF. WotC, Paizo, and Rokugan d20 are "official content" for my games, mostly defaulting to PF1 for overlapping content; there isn't a whole hell of a lot of 3PP 3.X material I care for, but there's a ton of 3PP PF1 material I use to a greater or lesser degree.

I really want to run a Gestalt game, sort of Spelljammer Rokugan, with No Core Classes.

I also really want to put together a Unified Field Theory that unites ki/Void/WFM, psionics/occult, and incarnum/akasha to more or less "bake in" these things into the "core rules" rather than treating them as niche accessories and replacing the Four in the Core.

 

[Scott Christian]

Vampire: The Masquerade​

 

[M.L. Martin]

D&D.

 

[aramis erak]

Just out of curiosity.

What RPG that had multiple editions did you decide to stick with an earlier edition rather than "upgrade" to the new edition? Why? What about the earlier edition made you decide to stay with it? What about the new edition made you decide not to go with it?

What about you? What game did you stay with an older edition rather than adopt a newer edition, and why?

Many over the years.
D&D - went back to Cyclopedia after 3.5e came out. Also after 5e.

Traveller: I stuck with MegaTraveller (MT) after TNE lead to subsatisfactory play. then again after T4. Then again after T20 and MGT1. MGT 2 hasn't seen table yet... but probably won't.

The One Ring: 1e is far superior, especially in the revised rulebook (1.1) to 2e; hope has a known effect and thus isn't wasted, and the TN calculations are easier, combat feels better, too. Only the 2e travel is an improvement over 1e.

Legend of the 5 rings: at first, I started with 2nd... then to 2nd with 1st rolling, then got 3rd, but went back to 2e due to the wider range of schools, collecting 3e until there were enough 3rd choices... got the core for 4th, didn't like the simplifications, stayed with 3rd... until playtest of 5th. I have since stuck with 5th - current sunday game is moving to L5R 5th again.

Star Wars: Started with WEG 1st, then with the RC, then on to 2nd... and liked it, didn't like 2 R&E as much due to scaling rules. Got, tried d20 SW, bounced hard. Tried revised, bounced harder. Both times, back to WEG 2.0. Switched to FFG during playtest but have run 1st and 2.0 since; 2.0 is just a hair behind FFG for me, but is an open option for players to request.

Twilight 2000; Prefer 2.0 over 1.0 and 2.2; I like the skill only rolling better than the att+skill of 2.2, as I feel 2.2 overvalues attribute:skill balance. I skipped 3rd entirely, and have since switched to 4th.

 

[BenjaminPey]

Very few, all in all.

Apocalypse World, I'm mostly sticking with v1, but curious of the v3 to come (especially to play it with kids).

I've stuck with AD&D 2E long enough, until 5e came out. Neither 3e nor 4e did anything for me. 5e was quite the improvement, in the other hand, and I won't ever go back except for the occasional OSR/Rule Cyclopedia one-shot or short campaign. 5.5 is a modest increment, but I'm happy with it, too.

I've stuck with V:tM 1E quite a long time, too. Up until v5, which I vastly prefer.

For CoC, the ameliorations were so incremental that it's almost the same game from edition to edition, but I'm happy with v7.

Nephilim, I'm staying with v2 (the only one translated in english, as far as I know; we're at v5 here).

Star Wars, the old v1/2 (especially in the ReUp version) is the only version I like.