D&D Steet Fight
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I liked 2nd Edition with the Skills and Powers books a lot, custom designing character classes and detailed critical hit effect tables...
...but honestly, 3rd Edition does it for me. It's much easier to learn than 2nd, and integrate new players into. At the same time, it was easy for older D&D players to adapt. The system had it's downfalls, but it was pretty openended and fun. The prestige classes concept appealed to me.
2nd Edition before Skills and Powers suffers a lot of the same criticism I point at 1st edition below.
Now to discuss that which I have only limited experience of.
1st Edition -
This edition as I understand it had very strict rules, very detailed and obscure rules, and was not only hard to learn and master, but also limited character options, with many restrictions on race and class/multiclass combinations.
4th Edition has some interesting concepts but I'm not buying a full set of books again for a few years. Also it seems a very different game and that may be good, may be bad.
...but honestly, 3rd Edition does it for me. It's much easier to learn than 2nd, and integrate new players into. At the same time, it was easy for older D&D players to adapt. The system had it's downfalls, but it was pretty openended and fun. The prestige classes concept appealed to me.
2nd Edition before Skills and Powers suffers a lot of the same criticism I point at 1st edition below.
Now to discuss that which I have only limited experience of.
1st Edition -
This edition as I understand it had very strict rules, very detailed and obscure rules, and was not only hard to learn and master, but also limited character options, with many restrictions on race and class/multiclass combinations.
4th Edition has some interesting concepts but I'm not buying a full set of books again for a few years. Also it seems a very different game and that may be good, may be bad.
I never played 1st, so all I know is vague impressionery from my friend's older brother's books that I briefly looked over once or twice.
The conversion to 2nd edition characters seemed rather painful though.
The conversion to 2nd edition characters seemed rather painful though.
I played D&D since inception. We just took the books(paperback and hardcover) and used what we wanted. Did not use what we did not want.
We never played a canned dungeon. We wrote our own. Main reason, they did not exist when we first started playing.
I have a HUGE collection of miniatures. D&D and tabletop, oh what fun that was.
No edition is my choice, they are all the same and I have no clue of what the differences might be.
We never played a canned dungeon. We wrote our own. Main reason, they did not exist when we first started playing.
I have a HUGE collection of miniatures. D&D and tabletop, oh what fun that was.
No edition is my choice, they are all the same and I have no clue of what the differences might be.
thats been the only real hard rule of any D&D Pen and Paper game, the second hard was have fun.uhgungawa said:
I started with basic and worked up through the editions then trough the video games to finish in DDO I watch the stuff about 4th edition seems to me to be almost a different game entirely we shall see where it goes.
I have loved each edition in its own right there are feature that where enduring in each loved the Dark Sun setting, But I have always been more about player options.
Go Psionics!!
and DDO