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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 9675977" data-attributes="member: 25619">Why I loved 1e?It was my introduction to RPG’s and gaming in 1982, summer before 8th grade.&nbsp; Introduction to a lifelong hobby and some of my closest friends.Why I didn’t like 2e?I was playing a Half-Orc in college when it came out.&nbsp; (We were a party of racial “exemplars” allied to stop a big bad - my race and class was “banned”.)Also, I liked the classic adventures - all set in Greyhawk or “no setting”, all in Basic or AD&amp;D rules - and the 2e adventures didn’t seem as good.I liked Greyhawk - grew to love it - and was annoyed by From The Ashes.&nbsp; It seemed they were deliberately trashing the setting and all things from the Golden Age of Gygaxian D&amp;D.As an increasingly estranged player who didn’t read the novels, I didn’t get what the truck load of Forgotten Realms books were about, why all the new weirder settings, why all the Complete this, book of splat that.&nbsp; I bought some things but I started running non-D&amp;D RPG’s, 1e, and OA again - early adopter of “Earlier Editions”.&nbsp; Anything but 2e.What’s my relationship status with 2e now?Tolerance.&nbsp; I’m reading and reviewing every issue of Dungeon, and I am deep in 2e now.&nbsp; There are some great 2e adventures in there and some stinkers.&nbsp; It’s fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 9675977, member: 25619"] [B]Why I loved 1e?[/B] It was my introduction to RPG’s and gaming in 1982, summer before 8th grade. Introduction to a lifelong hobby and some of my closest friends. [B]Why I didn’t like 2e?[/B] I was playing a Half-Orc in college when it came out. (We were a party of racial “exemplars” allied to stop a big bad - my race and class was “banned”.) Also, I liked the classic adventures - all set in Greyhawk or “no setting”, all in Basic or AD&D rules - and the 2e adventures didn’t seem as good. I liked Greyhawk - grew to love it - and was annoyed by From The Ashes. It seemed they were deliberately trashing the setting and all things from the Golden Age of Gygaxian D&D. As an increasingly estranged player who didn’t read the novels, I didn’t get what the truck load of Forgotten Realms books were about, why all the new weirder settings, why all the Complete this, book of splat that. I bought some things but I started running non-D&D RPG’s, 1e, and OA again - early adopter of “Earlier Editions”. Anything but 2e. [B]What’s my relationship status with 2e now?[/B] Tolerance. I’m reading and reviewing every issue of Dungeon, and I am deep in 2e now. There are some great 2e adventures in there and some stinkers. It’s fine. [/QUOTE]

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