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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: edition wars
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 05:55:10 -0800
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On 10/23/2024 10:49 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
> On 10/22/2024 5:27 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
>>
>> But I still hold that most of the complaints about 2E have less to do
>> with the system itself than with the meta surrounding it: with Gygax's
>> departure, with TSR's financial shenanigans, with the changing culture
>> around tabletop RPGs, etc.
>>
> 
> I think the main issue was that a lot of stuff became much more 
> sophisticated in writing and production, but that most of the stuff also 
> felt incredibly generic. And of course it doesn't help that the whole 
> idea of roleplaying went away from previous habits into the more 
> railroady aspects the Hickmans did so successfully. Roleplaying became 
> playing a role in a prewritten story, a development that still is 
> happening, to the point that it's not even really possible to play a 
> more freeform game of 5e in my opinion.
> 
> (I also think that it's a valid expression of roleplaying as an artform, 
> it's just not what DND started with and did best)

I rarely if ever used 2e modules when I played 2e. Pretty much all 
homebrew or occasional 1e modules converted.

I still think the majority of modules for 3e+ are pale garbage compared 
to the 1e & Basic modules.  The most fun I've had playing 5e is right 
now my friend is running us through a an official converted B4 The Lost 
City.

There was a couple parts of an adventure path I really enjoyed that he 
ran in 3e-3.5e, the rest of it was meh at best. I ran a different one 
which I found pretty bad.  I read a starter module that sounded really 
good but I never got around to running it.  I enjoyed running the 
starter module for 4e, but everything after that was not good on both 
sides.

I did run a couple 3e campaigns that were very homebrew I enjoyed, but 
nothing in 3.5e or 4e homebrew turned out well.  5e was more hit and 
miss, I never got anything past 8th level, and there was one I ran with 
converted KotB that didn't go well, but Zenopus and Lost Isle of 
Castanamir did.  I did have one homebrew I ran I kind of wished I'd kept 
going that I ended at 5th I think when I had difficulty keeping up with 
the pace of creating the adventures.

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-Justisaur

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