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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 5708650">I think they saved it in terms of keeping its popularity alive. People like supported products and after TSR went bankrupt there was a lot less interest in AD&D 2e around here (that is where I live). In fact, a lot of people I knew switched to Hackmaster because the rumor was it was just a reboot of AD&D (never played it myself so I am not sure). When they announced 3E I was skeptical. I was a 2E guy. When 3E came out it felt enough like D&D to me(plus it brough back some of the cool 1E stuff like half orcs) that I made the switch in about a month.  Having said that, I recently ran a 2E Ravenloft campaign because the 3E version never quite felt the same to me. In play I realized, though 2E has some quirky mechanics (some of which are a lot less quirky when you realize what they are trying to achieve probability wise, etc) it works really well for the kind of Ravenloft campaign I like to run. I went ten years running 3E Ravenloft thinking it was me or my group. But after running it with the 2E system I realize it was something about the d20 system that was causing the issue.  Don't get me wrong, I like d20. But I think like any system, the mechanics start to impact the flavor of the game.</blockquote>