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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9674898" data-attributes="member: 86653">Why do people play &quot;worse&quot; games when &quot;better&quot; games are right there? It's a question for the ages. The prevailing answer seems to be &quot;because they like it.&quot; See any discussion of why people play 5E instead of any other game for plenty of examples.At a guess, most gamers will house rule by omission most things that get in their way or bother them about a game, thus rounding out those rough edges. Or they will explicitly house rule things to work the way they want. As mentioned, many of the 2E changes were how lots of people already played AD&amp;D, so for a lot of people there was no reason to switch. They were already doing most of that stuff in their AD&amp;D games anyway. I know we were back then. So switching over just meant spending money on redundant books and spending time relearning where things were in the books or getting caught out on which version of the rule to use. Do we go with AD&amp;D RAW, our house rule, or 2E RAW on this one thing? Repeat that across every rule in the game. It's way, way easier to simply stick with what we'd been playing for years rather than switch. Though we did do over some of the 2E core and bring stuff in. Not much, but we did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9674898, member: 86653"] Why do people play "worse" games when "better" games are right there? It's a question for the ages. The prevailing answer seems to be "because they like it." See any discussion of why people play 5E instead of any other game for plenty of examples. At a guess, most gamers will house rule by omission most things that get in their way or bother them about a game, thus rounding out those rough edges. Or they will explicitly house rule things to work the way they want. As mentioned, many of the 2E changes were how lots of people already played AD&D, so for a lot of people there was no reason to switch. They were already doing most of that stuff in their AD&D games anyway. I know we were back then. So switching over just meant spending money on redundant books and spending time relearning where things were in the books or getting caught out on which version of the rule to use. Do we go with AD&D RAW, our house rule, or 2E RAW on this one thing? Repeat that across every rule in the game. It's way, way easier to simply stick with what we'd been playing for years rather than switch. Though we did do over some of the 2E core and bring stuff in. Not much, but we did. [/QUOTE]

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