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Gambit
Learned Scribe
110 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 03:53:21
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Poll Question:
As the title says, I am curious as to which edition of D&D everyone enjoys and partakes in, if you play multiple then pick your personal favorite. If you are a former player, not currently gaming, list the edition you last played or would choose to play now if given the chance. Also, feel free to comment on whether you stick with the timeline linked with each edition, or use them them interchangably, such as playing a 3rd Edition game set in 1st Edition times.
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Edited by - Gambit on 18 Aug 2010 16:05:45
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Hooch9
Acolyte
USA
20 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 05:16:43
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I play third edition. I've never played the older versions. I'm personally not a big fan of fourth edition though
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Earlie Cuyler: uhh? Books?
Earlie Cuyler: uh-uh, uh-uh, No they square like a magazine.
Sheriff: Books Earlie.
Earlie Cuyler: Noo not not that, but something like that, I wanna say boooooo...
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 05:23:56
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Currently I play 1st Edition with my family...but I have played all editions.
I prefer 1st Edition only because it is easy for my children to understand. |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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Gambit
Learned Scribe
110 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 05:29:35
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| Personally I play both Pathfinder and 2nd Edition. I voted for 2E because it is where I started, and it has this...mystical feel to it (I cant really describe it), one that was prevelent throughout AD&D, slightly lessened in 3E, and taken out back and slaughtered with the rest of the sacred cows in 4E. |
Edited by - Gambit on 18 Aug 2010 05:33:10 |
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bladeinAmn
Learned Scribe
199 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 05:48:44
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| 2e w/3e skills, so that its not juss rogues that can learn to detect and disable traps, not juss clerics who can heal party members, not juss mages who may be able to understand lore of long past, and fighters aren't boxed into stereotypes. And much fewer class restrictions for races. |
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Julian Grimm
Seeker
86 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 06:22:05
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Castles and Crusades or Swords and Wizardry are my games of choice these days.
Edit to add: I also just use the Greybox with the 1e supplements. |
Edited by - Julian Grimm on 18 Aug 2010 06:23:46 |
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Salius Kai
Learned Scribe
USA
217 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 06:30:17
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I played 3rd edition and happily made the change to 3.5. I don't care for the changed in pathfinder. I also really enjoy Baldur's Gate (PC game), which I guess classifies as 2nd edition.
I don't like 4th edition AT ALL. If I wanted to play World of Warcraft, I would have bout the computer game. Also, the changes that made to the realms made me cry (Why, oh why did Azuth have to die?) |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 09:00:48
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You could also have included Other systems or D&D.
If I use TSR I prefer using 2nd edition rules, but more or less 1st.edition Realms. Official timelines and canon have no place if they get in the way of ideas or play, but most of the information in the Grey Box stays.
As for the novels, I quit them for good years ago (except for Ed in general and Schends Blackstaff) and actually didn't enjoy that many published since the mid 90's |
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
1190 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 09:45:40
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| 3.5, but I love taking a look into olden times. Netheril and Cormanthyr are my favourites. Don't like 4e aside from a few concepts - returned Netheril and Myth Drannor among them. |
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Galuf the Dwarf
Senior Scribe
USA
489 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 17:14:21
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| I've only played 4th Edition thusfar, and as a practice play of it around the time of its release. I admit I rather like it, but I have plenty of 3rd/3.5 Edition rulebooks at my disposal for a 3.X game. Don't know what to vote as, honestly. |
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Tyranthraxus
Senior Scribe
Netherlands
423 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 18:16:15
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| I've played 2e, 3.x and currently 4e |
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Archimedes of Syracuse
Acolyte
USA
28 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 19:40:50
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| I'm novel only person, grrr I wish a got to actually play, iv loved every book iv read in the realms and I cannot comment on how 4E plays but all the 4E book have been very good reads and has probably become my favorite version. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2010 : 21:49:48
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Is it somewhat telling that I'm the only one so far that has said they play 1st edition?  |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2010 : 09:07:12
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| I unfortunately voted before the list got expanded. Now it would probably be another vote for "other", being a BRP variation. I still enjoy 2nd ed. and Rules Encyclopaedia versions, but I am not all that happy with the way the Realms work with the systems. It all depends on the players involved and the system they prefer though. |
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Dewaint
Learned Scribe
Germany
148 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2010 : 09:16:20
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| switched to pathfinder only recently. Play started in old days with D&D, then 1st, 2nd, 3.5 and now Pathfinder. But to be honest it is more a mix of 2nd, 3.5 and where possible Pathfinder rules/spells/items. |
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Diffan
Great Reader
USA
4426 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2010 : 15:52:08
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| I voted 4E mainly because I'm currently running a campaign using that rule system in the Realsm (and using that timeline as well) and I plan on running the adventure Keep on the Shadowfell using the Forgotten Realms conversion guide. But all that being said, I don't have any problems running 3.x or using Pathfinder which frankly is a greater improvement on 3.x. |
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2010 : 02:20:45
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1st Edition AD&D! Long live The Old Grey Box baby!
John |
Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1287 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2010 : 07:17:19
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I'll play any edition BUT 4e. I don't even recognize it as D&D, and all Canon after "Grand History of the Realms" I ignore as it is nonsense.
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 20 Aug 2010 : 22:13:19
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quote:
Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Is it somewhat telling that I'm the only one so far that has said they play 1st edition?
You are not alone any more.
John |
Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2010 : 06:21:37
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Originally posted by froglegg
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Is it somewhat telling that I'm the only one so far that has said they play 1st edition?
You are not alone any more.
John
May your legs never stop hopping...
You aren't any relation to Wastri are you? |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2010 : 17:20:31
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
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Originally posted by froglegg
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Is it somewhat telling that I'm the only one so far that has said they play 1st edition?
You are not alone any more.
John
May your legs never stop hopping...
You aren't any relation to Wastri are you?
LOL No but some of the people around where I work think I am when I cut their power off at the pole for stealing it.
John |
Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3285 Posts |
Posted - 21 Aug 2010 : 23:44:09
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Voted other. I plan on using the OGB, with the 3E Rules for some games, and the 4E Rules for others.
Mostly read the novels right now.
I have been brainstorming a 3E/4E 225DR Realms homebrew. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 22 Aug 2010 : 01:19:00
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I'm not DMing currently, and the three groups I play in all use 3.5 plus house rules (mostly from Pathfinder).
When I do get back behind the screen, I'll be using a ruleset that's mostly Pathfinder and a Realms set around 1400DR in which the Time of Troubles and Spellplague never happened. I'm a big fan of the 4E opposed-roll mechanic, despite my loathing for most other elements of the system, so I'll be doing away with Armor Class and many skill DCs in favor of opposed rolls. Castles & Crusades and True20 have some neat mechanics as well. The longest-running campaign I'm playing in is starting to wind down, and I might toss in a mini-campaign of the game that got me into RPGs in the first place... Tunnels and Trolls. I recently found the complete Dungeon of the Bear for T&T in PDF at DriveThruRPG, and I've had the T&T core book and all six volumes of Grimtooth's Traps for a while now. I wish I'd picked up Grimtooth's d20 book, but the DM of the aforementioned campaign has it, and I've been under strict orders to keep my sadistic little hands off it until the campaign is over. |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2010 : 12:15:32
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I currently play 4E. Enjoy 3/3.5 also of course, but 4E is by far the easiest to DM and set up adventures (for me anyways). Plus as a player I enjoy it more also.
Love the history of the earlier editions, I could play 3E today, but will NEVER go back to THAC0 lol |
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Dreyrugrulfr
Acolyte
USA
14 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2010 : 17:08:20
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| Second edition here, though I use a lot of sources from First, and I consider them largely the same beast in different clothing at times. Not particuarly a fan of 4th, but I'm willing to play it with friends, same with 3rd/Pathfinder. I'd play it, but I'd never DM it. 2nd is nice and simple to remember (I don't use the Option books for a reason!) and yet has enough variety to keep me interested, and my players too. Plus, I enjoy how hard it is :D Shame my players don't agree. |
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Shottglazz
Acolyte
Canada
49 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2010 : 15:13:36
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| Mainly 2e, although we use some of the 3e attack conventions (got rid of THAC0) and we ignore most canon events after the 2nd edition box set (no thunder blessing, most of the retcon stuff is gone)... |
Shottglazz
"Take my love, Take my land, Take me where I cannot stand;
I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me." |
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BARDOBARBAROS
Senior Scribe
Greece
581 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2010 : 15:35:59
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| My favorite is AD&D 2E !And follows the 3.5 edition... |
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Saxmilian
Learned Scribe
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2010 : 15:38:12
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| I've played them all. Liked all the materials in Second the best, like 3.5 the most (I just love haivng stats for animals and stuff) and think 4E is too much like a video game. I want details and descriptions, not a "quickie" |
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Lord of Bones
Seeker
United Kingdom
78 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2010 : 17:15:22
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| I'm using Pathfinder. It's excellent for both new players and old veterans, in my opinion. My group loves the improvements it made to a lot of the classes, and it has certainly streamlined the 3.5 rules. |
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Mr_Miscellany
Senior Scribe
545 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2010 : 18:38:38
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3.5 is my preference.
Right now I’m playing in a 3.5 Realms game (as a Cleric of Tymora). When or if I return to DMing I’ll happily run either 3E or 4E. Pathfinder has interested me somewhat too.
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What edition do you play?
