Who still plays older versions of D&D?

[Jupp]

We play 2e here. Though plans to start a C&C campaign have started to appear. We'll see how it works out

 

[JediSoth]

It's hard to get a percentage of players of older editions versus the current edition if there's no choice of "I don't play older editions."

Which I don't. I tried a retro-game for my bachelor party. We did hardcore 1st edition Tomb of Horrors. While I still like the module, I didn't care for the mechanics anymore. To me, they seemed unneccessarily arbitrary and restrictive. Although, I do admit it was fun killing one of my player's characters three times in a row.

JediSoth

edit: changed "one of my players" to "one of my player's characters" so it didn't look like I was committing murder

 

[Cowpanzamie]

It's hard to get a percentage of players of older editions versus the current edition if there's no choice of "I don't play older editions."

True. But I'm not really interested in a %. I just assume that the vast majority of folks here don't play the older editions. That's just a given. What I wanted to see is the number of people who *do* play the older editions. It may not get me an A in statistics class, but it satisfies my curiosity.

 

[loki44]

Playing in diaglo's OD&D game and having a blast.

 

[Nikosandros]

I'm gonna start a new 1st edition campaign this coming Sunday.

 

[harmyn]

Working up options and extra nifties for a Rules Cyclopedia game I am hoping to run in a couple of months. A couple of players really want to stick to the newest ed (they have never actually had to try and DM it or anything else for that matter) so I am playing with a few things to sway them over a bit. For my D&D needs, I would be happy with the RC and various House Rules and friend inspired ideas to go on forever. Game is then about imagination over pure crunch again.

But having said that I have had fun with the newest rules, just tired of the headaches involved in making NPC's and juggling it all. The Junior Woodchuck Guidebook of rules (1st ed DMG) was easier to track and know things in than what I have had to deal with more recently.

 

[howandwhy99]

Playing in diaglo's OD&D game and having a blast.

It's very weird. Unlike any other roleplaying game I've been in. Yet with all the old familiar tropes of level, class, and race. And the precision you see in old 60's wargames is prevalent (as in Judges Guild's town and castle supplements). It really feels like a descendant of massive table wargames where everything is tracked and measured for realism. Yet battlefield decisions are as freeform as ever.

 

[Staffan]

I am unfamiliar with "Moldvay/Cook/Mentzer/Rules Cyclopedia"

It's the "line" of D&D descending from the Basic Set (D&D 2nd ed). It's the stuff along the right-hand side of the attached "family tree."

 

[rogueattorney]

It's the "line" of D&D descending from the Basic Set (D&D 2nd ed). It's the stuff along the right-hand side of the attached "family tree."

<completely off-topic rant>Which makes WotC's "Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd edition" actually the 8th different edition of Dungeons & Dragons. That's a bit of an pet peave of mine. I'll admit it's anal, but I just can't stand it. It's ahistorical, deceptive, and non-sensical, and WotC's attempted explanations for the name simply sound silly. The reality is that they wanted to make it sound like it was the successor of 2nd edition AD&D, while dropping the admittedly no-longer needed "Advanced" in the title. Why they couldn't have just called it "The New Revised Dungeons & Dragons" or something to that effect is beyond me.</completely off-topic rant>

On topic. I play 1981 B/X D&D supplemented by the 70's OD&D rules additions in informal games. For more serious week-to-week gaming, AD&D1 as BtB as possible is my game of choice. I answered 1e in the poll, although OD&D and Basic would have been about as accurate.

R.A.

 

[John Desmarais]

I am unfamiliar with "Moldvay/Cook/Mentzer/Rules Cyclopedia",

Came out in the 2nd Edition AD&D timeframe. It was basically the last version of what original D&D became (think Basic D&D + Expert Rules + more in one book). It is my personal favorite edition of the games that refered to as some version/edition/variation of D&D. It still had a fair amount of the charm and flavor of the original D&D with enough (IMO) additional options to keep the "crunchy" set interested.

John Desmarais