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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 9675185" data-attributes="member: 1008">Speaking only for myself:Several restrictions on magic users were removed or loosened, for the worse:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Preparation time drops from 15 minutes per level to 10 minutes per level, which means high level magic users can recover their full complement of spells much faster.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bonus spells for specialists.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I believe chance to know rolls were removed and, in general, magic users are given much more control over exactly which spells they can learn.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Conversely, while the mage is getting more powerful for no good reason, the fighter loses their multiple attacks against low HD enemies (edit: actually, I believe it may have still existed as an optional rule; still, IMO there is no good reason not to just leave it as standard).</li> </ul>Several classes were changed for the worse.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Illusionist is now just another magic user.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I think the 1e ranger is an awesome concept, while the 2e one is a bit bleh (possibly that's more an effect of the saturation of the new ranger archetype in later editions).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bard is easier to get to the table, but much more boring.</li> </ul>Other things:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The general aesthetic of 1e was grimy, with a focus on dungeons and exploration. XP for gold was a key component, which is still present in 2e, but only as an optional rule.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Giving fighters XP for combat as their primary method of advancing promotes a fight-first playstyle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2e was going for a more heroic quest vibe, but I just wouldn't use AD&D for that sort of game. 2e had some amazing settings, but I would run most of them with Mythras rather than AD&D.</li> </ul>Mechanically, the games were still very close, and any game you could run with 1e you could do with 2e with little or no effort. But 2e doesn't provide me better tools for that sort of game, and does have a number of ways in which it offers less.Plenty of people won't agree with me on many of these points, and that's fine. These things are why I would use 1e, not why you should.</blockquote>

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