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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 5836317" data-attributes="member: 529">Rules seem to be the predominant reason.  I sort of expected more people to choose the "I already bought a bunch of books" or "I couldn't afford it." but I guess people find a way to afford things they really want. (and I'm a firm believer that D&D is one of the best entertainment values out there, dollars per hour anyway).Oh, and if I were to go back to an earlier set of rules, I'd go BECMI.  What a great, complete, yet simple system.  It had everything from dungeon crawls to strongholds, to weapon mastery, and nation building to War Machine and Epic level play that was playable, and even Immortals, though I never got into that.  It didn't have the bloat from boatloads of splatbooks, just a little bit of extra mechanics like the Merchant Prince class from the fluff rich Gazeteers.  Sure it still had THAC0 and other old school clunkiness, but if my players wanted to, I'd run it in a heartbeat.  Oh and it had Bargle.  Gotta love to hate Bargle.</blockquote>