Are our tastes set?

deganawida said:

I’ve been thinking a lot lately, about D&D, editions, and tastes. I’ve noticed that, while I love the mechanical purity of B/X, the weirdness of 1e, the balance of 4e, and so forth, my tastes always seem to come back to 2nd edition. I mean, I love all the editions, but 2e was my first real embrace of D&D, and I end up judging every other edition by it, even when other editions are better and just as fun (which is really frustrating, of course).

If you you had just one D&D version you could play the rest of your life, with the group of your choice, would it be the one that brought you to the dance, or would it be a different version?

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aco175 said:

I'm still hoping that 6e will be the one that is everything I need.

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deganawida said:

If you you had just one D&D version you could play the rest of your life, with the group of your choice, would it be the one that brought you to the dance, or would it be a different version?

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Whizbang Dustyboots said:

Noooo. I started with 1E and life's too short to go back to combat matrices and saving throw charts.

I will always love AD&D flavor, though, and it influences how I've run 2E, 3E, Castles & Crusades and now 5E and Shadowdark.

If I had to pick one system for the rest of my life, for all purposes? I'd hate making that choice, honestly, but it'd probably be Shadowdark, since I can (and do) homebrew up all the stuff I miss from other versions.

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Reynard said:

Out of curiosity, have you found or yourself created non-random character development stuff? it seems to me that is the hardest sell for Sahdowdark -- which I adore -- as an ongoing campaign foundation.

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Richards said:

I started around 1977 with AD&D 1E as a high schooler, and I played AD&D 2E with my kids, but 3.5 is where I ended up and where I fully intend to stay. I literally have enough 3.5 material to last me the rest of my gaming life, with a group of players who likewise saw no need to move on to 4E or 5E. So it's 3.5 for my group and for me (with four completed campaigns that went through 20 levels each, and two more currently ongoing campaigns looking to do the same).

Johnathan

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Richards said:

I write my own adventures, but I use lots of material from the various sourcebooks (Libris Mortis, Manual of the Planes, Stormwrack, Serpent Kingdoms, etc.). My first two campaigns were set in a (heavily modified) Greyhawk, but by current one (and intended follow-on campaign) are on the same homebrewed world.

Johnathan

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