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Author Topic: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?  (Read 5028 times)

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #45 on: April 26, 2021, 01:48:03 PM »
Tough choice between BX and BECMI, but I'll go with the former because it is balanced for a 14 level progression rather than 36.

Beyond the Wall (and now Through Sunken Lands) are also favorites. I love the playbooks and the magic system (the arcane/divine split is possibly my least favorite part of D&D)
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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #46 on: April 26, 2021, 08:46:02 PM »
I wasn't aware that that was a thing.  I started with Holmes then moved to AD&D.  Compared to those two, the Menzer books looked a little cartoonish to me.

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #47 on: April 26, 2021, 09:38:21 PM »

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

Nostalgia has nothing to do with it. 

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #48 on: April 27, 2021, 05:32:04 AM »

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

Nostalgia has nothing to do with it.
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5E was a blessing, but it was BX who did the trick. It was (and still is) a perfectly fine system.
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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #49 on: April 27, 2021, 09:52:10 AM »
Nostalgia has nothing to do with it.

Agreed. I play the versions of D&D that I like because I prefer them, not because I'm nostalgic.
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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #50 on: April 27, 2021, 09:53:15 AM »
One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

Define "bad idea". If you want to play The Hobbit, B/X or BECMI makes way more sense than AD&D. I have no nostalgia for B/X or whatever; I actually play it because the more simple implementation means I can get on with the game instead of fucking around with making characters. If you're trying to introduce new players to D&D, AD&D is not a good place to start whatsoever. That said, I think Advanced Labyrinth Lord is probably the best version of B/X.
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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #51 on: April 27, 2021, 10:15:09 AM »
4th Edition with my own homebrewed modifications and houserules. I'm actually pretty excited that I'm putting together a Campaign set in the world of Diablo and just making a bunch of the monsters from that game has been a lot of fun.
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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #52 on: April 27, 2021, 10:48:00 AM »
I wasn't aware that that was a thing.  I started with Holmes then moved to AD&D.  Compared to those two, the Menzer books looked a little cartoonish to me.

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

This forum is like 90% OSR. They worship OD&D. You're confusing a cult with nostalgia.  :P

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #53 on: April 27, 2021, 10:50:09 AM »
I wasn't aware that that was a thing.  I started with Holmes then moved to AD&D.  Compared to those two, the Menzer books looked a little cartoonish to me.

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

This forum is like 90% OSR. They worship OD&D. You're confusing a cult with nostalgia.  :P

I dont think so, it seems the vast majority of OSR products are based on B/X not OD&D

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #54 on: April 27, 2021, 11:02:14 AM »
I wasn't aware that that was a thing.  I started with Holmes then moved to AD&D.  Compared to those two, the Menzer books looked a little cartoonish to me.

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

This forum is like 90% OSR. They worship OD&D. You're confusing a cult with nostalgia.  :P

I dont think so, it seems the vast majority of OSR products are based on B/X not OD&D

A distinction understandable only to people that worship OD&D, as in "Old" D&D (in general), as opposed to "original" D&D (White Box? whatever) or any of the fifty thousand variations of what is essentially D&D 0e. Nobody else knows what any of these strings of letters mean.

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #55 on: April 27, 2021, 11:08:08 AM »
I wasn't aware that that was a thing.  I started with Holmes then moved to AD&D.  Compared to those two, the Menzer books looked a little cartoonish to me.

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

This forum is like 90% OSR. They worship OD&D. You're confusing a cult with nostalgia.  :P

I dont think so, it seems the vast majority of OSR products are based on B/X not OD&D

A distinction understandable only to people that worship OD&D, as in "Old" D&D (in general), as opposed to "original" D&D (White Box? whatever) or any of the fifty thousand variations of what is essentially D&D 0e. Nobody else knows what any of these strings of letters mean.

Im pretty sure a lot of people do. Also using an acronym thats the same as another acronym to mean something different is needlessly confusing things.

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #56 on: April 27, 2021, 11:28:52 AM »

Some type of sword & sorcery for mature audiences.  I prefer rules-light old-school type games, but with a few modern innovations (ascending AC, inspiration, leveling quickly, etc.)

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #57 on: April 27, 2021, 12:16:49 PM »
I wasn't aware that that was a thing.  I started with Holmes then moved to AD&D.  Compared to those two, the Menzer books looked a little cartoonish to me.

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

This forum is like 90% OSR. They worship OD&D. You're confusing a cult with nostalgia.  :P

I dont think so, it seems the vast majority of OSR products are based on B/X not OD&D

A distinction understandable only to people that worship OD&D, as in "Old" D&D (in general), as opposed to "original" D&D (White Box? whatever) or any of the fifty thousand variations of what is essentially D&D 0e. Nobody else knows what any of these strings of letters mean.

Im pretty sure a lot of people do. Also using an acronym thats the same as another acronym to mean something different is needlessly confusing things.

That's the nature of acronyms. Each letter can potentially map out to different words and there's no consensus on which one is the "correct" one, assuming that "correct" even exists in this case. Plenty of acronyms have a wide variety of meanings. People don't even agree WTF the "R" in "OSR" means! Is it renaissance? Is it revival? Is it revulsion? Who knows?

I've seen plenty of people use OD&D to mean "old". I even saw an old thread way back at the Pub (I think?) of a guy complaining about the inconsistency of usage, and how people are not properly familiar with the endless variations of what OSR types mean with OD&D vs B/X vs 0e, etc. Seriously, NO ONE else in the RPG world has so many unique and snowflaky acronyms or letter-numbers to refer to what's ostensibly the 1st edition of their game engine.

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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #58 on: April 27, 2021, 01:13:19 PM »
It is a bit odd, that when people say 1st Edition; they aren't referring to the 1st Edition of the game.

If you tell people that you are playing 3rd Edition, most will assume that you meant 3.5; even though that's not what you said.

This is a strange hobby.
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Re: What's Your Favorite Flavor of D&D?
« Reply #59 on: April 27, 2021, 01:46:39 PM »
I wasn't aware that that was a thing.  I started with Holmes then moved to AD&D.  Compared to those two, the Menzer books looked a little cartoonish to me.

One needs only look at all the mentions of BECMI in this thread alone to see that nostalgia.  I made it to Expert but switched to AD&D before Companion came out.  Mostly because race-is-class is and always has been a bad idea.

This forum is like 90% OSR. They worship OD&D. You're confusing a cult with nostalgia.  :P

Here’s a news flash for them then:  OD&D did not have race-is-class either.