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<blockquote data-quote="GuyBoy" data-source="post: 9000406" data-attributes="member: 7031143"><p>I missed the 1E to 2E change completely.</p><p>I’d started, aged 13, with the white boxed set in 1976 and moved seamlessly to 1E alongside my friends at school. Kept going through university, both at the uni itself and with old school friends during the holidays a bit. </p><p>I left university in ‘84 and more or less left the game for a bit. No game-related reason, just career, family and rugby taking up all my time. I returned in around 1993 to find that 2E had appeared, Gygax had gone and tanar’ri had been gated in to replace demons. THACO seemed Wacko, but I got the maths ok and returned to both playing and DM-ing. I enjoyed it just fine but it never grabbed me in the way 1e had done; it just seemed to lack soul, and I hated the various Skills & Powers books with a passion. Maybe not being “there” when 2E arrived was more to blame than the edition itself?</p><p>I loved 3e: it seemed to re-energise the game’s culture and was a neat and effective system, at least till higher levels. And bards were really cool!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GuyBoy, post: 9000406, member: 7031143"] I missed the 1E to 2E change completely. I’d started, aged 13, with the white boxed set in 1976 and moved seamlessly to 1E alongside my friends at school. Kept going through university, both at the uni itself and with old school friends during the holidays a bit. I left university in ‘84 and more or less left the game for a bit. No game-related reason, just career, family and rugby taking up all my time. I returned in around 1993 to find that 2E had appeared, Gygax had gone and tanar’ri had been gated in to replace demons. THACO seemed Wacko, but I got the maths ok and returned to both playing and DM-ing. I enjoyed it just fine but it never grabbed me in the way 1e had done; it just seemed to lack soul, and I hated the various Skills & Powers books with a passion. Maybe not being “there” when 2E arrived was more to blame than the edition itself? I loved 3e: it seemed to re-energise the game’s culture and was a neat and effective system, at least till higher levels. And bards were really cool! [/QUOTE]
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