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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8317901" data-attributes="member: 86653">As someone who had those conversations in real time back in the day, it came down to comfort and money. We already had the AD&amp;D books in hand. We already house ruled AD&amp;D to work the way we wanted it to. We only ever had to look up weird edge cases and the exact wording of a spell to see if it could be used in some bizarre way. And because 2E was so close to AD&amp;D, we didn't see any reason, mechanically, to jump. Some of the new rules were exactly how we were already playing it and some of the new rules we didn't like. So we'd have to start from scratch and relearn a new system that was really close to what we were already playing and work up a new set of house rules to make that new system play the way we wanted it to...i.e. make it play how we were already playing with the books we already had. We'd have to deal with sorting through which rules were actually in the book vs which rules we were remembering from our house rules. Rebuy all the main books and deal with the bizarre loose-leaf MM. There was literally no reason to switch. Though using those tasty, tasty settings would have been amazing. For the new rules we did like from 2E, we just house ruled them into our AD&amp;D game. The group I'm talking about started playing in 1978 with a mix of the Holmes Basic set and the Monster Manual. When AD&amp;D dropped the PHB and DMG, they still collected the various Basic boxes, but they played AD&amp;D from '78-'79 on. By the time 2E came out, they'd already been playing AD&amp;D for a decade and house ruled things to work the way they wanted to. I joined them in 1984. I'd already been playing AD&amp;D for five years by the time 2E came out. None of us saw any reason to switch. We already had the books. We already house ruled the game to work how we liked. Why spend more money on a slightly different version of the game we were already playing and had already collected multiple copies of all the books.Bottom line: it would be more work and more money to switch than to stay. So we stayed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 8317901, member: 86653"] As someone who had those conversations in real time back in the day, it came down to comfort and money. We already had the AD&D books in hand. We already house ruled AD&D to work the way we wanted it to. We only ever had to look up weird edge cases and the exact wording of a spell to see if it could be used in some bizarre way. And because 2E was so close to AD&D, we didn't see any reason, mechanically, to jump. Some of the new rules were exactly how we were already playing it and some of the new rules we didn't like. So we'd have to start from scratch and relearn a new system that was really close to what we were already playing and work up a new set of house rules to make that new system play the way we wanted it to...i.e. make it play how we were already playing with the books we already had. We'd have to deal with sorting through which rules were actually in the book vs which rules we were remembering from our house rules. Rebuy all the main books and deal with the bizarre loose-leaf MM. There was literally no reason to switch. Though using those tasty, tasty settings would have been amazing. For the new rules we did like from 2E, we just house ruled them into our AD&D game. The group I'm talking about started playing in 1978 with a mix of the Holmes Basic set and the Monster Manual. When AD&D dropped the PHB and DMG, they still collected the various Basic boxes, but they played AD&D from '78-'79 on. By the time 2E came out, they'd already been playing AD&D for a decade and house ruled things to work the way they wanted to. I joined them in 1984. I'd already been playing AD&D for five years by the time 2E came out. None of us saw any reason to switch. We already had the books. We already house ruled the game to work how we liked. Why spend more money on a slightly different version of the game we were already playing and had already collected multiple copies of all the books. Bottom line: it would be more work and more money to switch than to stay. So we stayed. [/QUOTE]

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