3rd ed, or to be specific, 3.5 ed. There's tons of materials for it, it's not too complicated, you have massive freedom in building your character (unlike 2nd and 4th ed). It's very robust and can cover almost anything. Also, d20 in general is easily adapted to any situation.
2nd ed was OK, and I HAVE to like it since I grew up with it, but it's got some seriously retarded and arbitrary rules (saving throw system never made sense to me in 2nd ed), the THAC0 and AC were counterintuitive, and so on and so forth.
4th ed I have no real experience with. On one hand, I heard that it's much easier to pick up and play, especially for inexperienced players, and I do like that they tried to give all the classes something to do and even out the power progression, but at the same time they made it too much like a generic CRPG and destroyed a lot of what made the classes distinct.
However, since I don't PnP anymore I'll just have to wait for the first proper 4th ed CRPG to judge it fully. Since the only thing on the horizon is the NWN MMO (and yes, it's an MMO, no matter how much Atari tries to sugar coat it), I suppose I'll be waiting for a long time...
2nd ed was OK, and I HAVE to like it since I grew up with it, but it's got some seriously retarded and arbitrary rules (saving throw system never made sense to me in 2nd ed), the THAC0 and AC were counterintuitive, and so on and so forth.
4th ed I have no real experience with. On one hand, I heard that it's much easier to pick up and play, especially for inexperienced players, and I do like that they tried to give all the classes something to do and even out the power progression, but at the same time they made it too much like a generic CRPG and destroyed a lot of what made the classes distinct.
However, since I don't PnP anymore I'll just have to wait for the first proper 4th ed CRPG to judge it fully. Since the only thing on the horizon is the NWN MMO (and yes, it's an MMO, no matter how much Atari tries to sugar coat it), I suppose I'll be waiting for a long time...