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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philotomy Jurament" data-source="post: 3331173" data-attributes="member: 20854">Stage 1: HolmesStarted with the "blue book" boxed set.Stage 2: Holmes + 1EAdded 1E books as they came out.  Gaming during this period was an unholy mix of rules from editions owned by various people: OD&D, Holmes, B/X (Moldvay/Cook/Marsh), and 1E.  We tended to mix and match, freely.  Games I ran were pretty much Holmes + 1E, though.Stage 3: 1EGradually, my game became more AD&D based, until it was pretty close to RAW 1E.Experiment Stage: 2EBought 2E when it came out.  Hated it.  The problem wasn't really the rules; mostly I didn't like the "look and feel" of the new edition.  Despised the whole "let's not talk about demons and devils" thing, et cetera, et cetera.  Didn't like the way Greyhawk was buried.  Thought the splat books were goofy.  Didn't like the adventures that came out.  I tried to like it -- but it wasn't happening.Stage 4: BECMI/RCAfter my brief and disappointing dalliance with 2E, I decided to return to running a 1E game, but found no takers.  The attitude seemed to be something along the lines of "if we're going to play AD&D, let's use 2E -- it's shinier and newer."  Instead, I proposed a "back to basics" campaign using the Mentzer boxed sets.  Much to my surprise, I got no arguments to this (maybe because BECMI was still being produced and 1E was not?), so away we went.  Not long after the campaign started, TSR published the Rules Cyclopedia, and so I used that, too.  That particular BECMI campaign was the longest-running and most successful D&D campaign I've ever run.Stage 5: 3EGave 3.0 a try when it came out.  Enjoyed low-level play with the core books.  The arrival of 3.5 annoyed me, and I didn't buy the new books; instead I cherry-picked 3.5 rules from the SRD and house-ruled them in.  As levels got higher and splat book stuff got incorporated I enojyed it less.  Also, I don't like the look-and-feel of 3E, either.  All that added up to...Experiment Stage: Looking AroundStarted trying d20 variants like Arcana Unearthed, Iron Heroes, etc.  Ran mini-campaigns to get the feel of different systems.  Looked at Castles & Crusades, True20, Savage Worlds, Lejendary Adventure, OD&D (the OCE white box set)[/i], B/X (Moldvay/Cook/Marsh -- which I had never owned or run, even though I was familiar with it from other gamers), FUDGE/FATE, and Basic Fantasy.Stage 6: C&CTrying those various systems reminded me what I like best about D&D.  My favorites were C&C, B/X, OD&D, and Basic Fantasy.  I settled on C&C because it's in print, has some modern approaches that are familiar to 3E players, but still has the old-school qualities I prefer.  I also like the ease with which it's house-ruled, and how easy it is to use material from the various editions of D&D.  And that's where I'm at, today.</blockquote>

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