Re: edition wars

On 10/23/2024 10:49 AM, Kyonshi wrote:

On 10/22/2024 5:27 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
 

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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.
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 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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