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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9674998" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Aesthetics and nostalgia, plus this:I think there's a lot of truth here.  2E tried to be all things to all DMs, and encompasses some contradictory approaches and a whole mess of supplements. When I think back to playing 2E the Complete books are absolutely part of that, but which ones is very much a matter of taste.I also think that dumping treasure for XP as a core rule, and a couple of dubious choices with other important rules (default ability score generation, multiclass M-Us not being able to cast in armor, spells gained after 1st being DM fiat, death at zero) are actively worse than the 1E versions.  The initiative system is the one really clear improvement, but even that is only so because it's actually understandable and playable.  I find the system itself clunky and unappealing in part because it has weapon reach/speed backwards and makes that important every single round instead of an edge case on tied initiatives.  1E with a couple of judicious simplifications is actually better system IMO.</blockquote>