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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1751064" data-attributes="member: 8835">In response to the "everything 2e", I just remembered another item I think was the worst:The AD&D Player's Handbook, 1st edition. Y'know, the one with the demon statue on the cover with a thief popping it's ruby eye out.Story on how I know coming up.The writing absolutely sucked.  The print style was hard to read.The art was cartoony and bad.Incidentally, written by Gygax as I recall.  His Gord novels sucked too.  I own them.  Gary Gygax is a pretentious author and is a horrible crafter of prose(go read his Dragon magazine articles) .Way back in the year of '90, a friend of mine mail-ordered our first D&D books.  We lived in the sticks.  We knew about D&D (read comics, saw the ads), read the novels, all that.  We scraped together our $$$ and sent in an order for the DMG2e, PH2e, FRA, CBW and some dice.We got pretty much everything, except for one subtle mistake.  They sent me the 1st edition PH and not the 2nd.  Just by reading the PH and DMG, you could see a world of difference.  The formatting was better in the 2e book.  The explanations were clearer.We actually played a few sessions with the PH1e, until my correct PH arrived.  Let me tell you, that made a world of difference.  It was far easier to read and understand, and to be able to find the things we were looking for.Put it this way, THAC0 and AC were pretty obvious ways to present the math.  Yet the PH1e had to present a frickin' table of AC vs. weapon.  What a mess!Now for all you naysayers of 2e, who're thinking, how could 1e be hard to read?  Beats me?  Figure it this way, I was a Junior in high school.  I programmed computers for fun and profit, had an IQ over 120.  I played Battletech, and had seen plenty of other FASA RPGs.  I had no problem deciphering it, I'm just saying it was a pain in the butt, and the PH2e was way easier to read and follow and get the job done.Simply put 1E had a huge barrier to entry, being that it helped to have an experienced player to present it.  Whereas, 2e was pretty easy for a bunch of high school kids to get started on with fewer mistakes.Janx</blockquote>

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