dragonsfoot

[xav++]

I think I started on 2nd edition when I was ten and then when I could buy my own books I went to 3.5

[MedievalMan]

Fun edition. Especially once you decipher the poor layout of the books, and ignore 90% of the optional subsystems. I did like the idea of kits and the proficiencies subsystem.

[xav++]

Yea I barely remember but I'm loving old school

[MedievalMan]

Its fun stuff. Simplicity has a way of winning people over I guess. I like it because its worlds easier to GM than newer games are. It can get a bit esoteric in places, but that's hardly a reason not to play.

[xav++]

I like both I guess but right now I'm enjoying my hobby's roots

[Metroknight]

I tried 3.5 a couple times and it just didn't click with me. I never even played 4e for it read more like a video game then an actual rp game. Each edition is just a person's choice so enjoy what you want. I'm slowly converting people over to BFRPG on my forum. I got a friend of mine to start running the system and I have a handful of regular players and more people curious about the system.

I have a live game online with Traipse and I'm running a pbp game also. I just like to modify stuff to suit me so none of my games are pure BFRPG at this time.

[SmootRK]

I just don't like the idea that stuff that comes after a set point in time cannot have any value at all. It is a truly ignorant position to take. Regardless of what some there think, there is a great deal of real innovation that has occurred over time. Things that simplify gaming (ascending AC for instance), things that give additional options without upsetting the balance of things, or things that are just simply "more"... more spells, more magic items, more monsters, more more more.

Through several ebay successes (I almost never buy new, instead as aftermarket), I acquired a great deal of 3.x books. There is a ton of really good stuff that can be utilized in any sort of game system. So much to go through, but much of the stuff can be applied at least in the thematic way, or world specific (I have a near complete set of Forgotten Realms and Scarred Lands books).

I even wrote a good deal of material for the system such as:
Geisha (as an Asian-styled Bard)
Archivist (Heroes of Horror, but redone as a Druid/Nature Academic)
SoulForged (a Forgotten Realms version of Warforged race, coming from Thay)
Thayan Slaver (redone Prestige Class, big improvement)
and some smaller endeavors

But basically, there are gems everywhere one looks, if one cares to look. If one looks for dirt, one will surely find it too. Same goes with gaming materials. If you look at it with the intent on seeing what you don't like, you will surely find it, but if you look for material that can easily be adapted for old-school use, you will surely find some.

[Steveman]

I stumbled across that Geisha class while digging around for my setting. Good stuff, given the nature of the system it was for.

[Metroknight]

I've never understood why people felt the need to bash stuff. I didn't like what i read of 4e but if someone wanted to play it then go for it and enjoy. Everyone is entitled to like and play what they want.

[Steveman]

I've never understood why people felt the need to bash stuff. I didn't like what i read of 4e but if someone wanted to play it then go for it and enjoy. Everyone is entitled to like and play what they want.

For some people its a hatred of change.
For others it is a sense of superiority in their own fun.
For people like me, it is PTSD from getting over the Stockholm Syndrome I had with terrible game design.