{"id":207,"date":"2009-07-15T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-07-15T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T20:40:18","slug":"edition-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/edition-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Edition Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edition wars. Where would D&amp;D be without them? Even when I first started playing D&amp;D back in 1980, there were already edition wars. Members of my first gaming group would argue the merits of Basic D&amp;D vs. Advanced D&amp;D vs. &#8220;the little brown books&#8221; (the boxed set of <cite>Men &amp; Magic<\/cite>, <cite>Monsters &amp; Treasure<\/cite>, and <cite>Underworld &amp; Wilderness Adventures<\/cite>).<\/p>\n<p>My contribution to the Edition Wars topic is a little different. I haven&#8217;t really had a chance to try out a new addition of D&amp;D, but I&#8217;m hoping to by the end of the month. If I get a chance, I&#8217;ll write a post about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6d6fireball.com\/rpg\/dd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-199\" style=\"border:none;padding-right:5px;\" title=\"rpg blog carnival logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/rpgblogcarnivallogo.jpg\" alt=\"rpg blog carnival logo\" width=\"167\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>D&amp;D isn&#8217;t the only game to go through multiple editions. If you&#8217;ve read my post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/upgrading\/\" target=\"_blank\">upgrading to new editions<\/a>, you know I&#8217;ve got a lot of older editions of games on my selves. Instead of rehashing the &#8220;which D&amp;D edition is better&#8221; debate, I decided to list my favorite games that have multiple editions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/strong>. The granddaddy of all RPGs. To date, I&#8217;ve played Basic D&amp;D, AD&amp;D (1st ed), D&amp;D 3.0 and D&amp;D 3.5. I played 1st ed for so long I still remember that the saving throw chart was on pg. 79 of the DMG. That&#8217;s without looking at the books in almost 20 years (except to verify that saves <em>were <\/em>on pg. 79 \ud83d\ude09 ). I loved that game and played the books to tatters. Even with that, I have to admit that 3.5 is my favorite edition so far. I love the skill system and feats which allow me to customize my character so I don&#8217;t have the exact same skill set as every other character of my class. I haven&#8217;t really played 2nd ed or 4th ed, so the jury&#8217;s still out on them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>World of Darkness<\/strong>. 2nd ed, hands down and straight across the board. Granted, I haven&#8217;t actually <em>played<\/em> the newest editions (I&#8217;m still reading through them) but I don&#8217;t care for what&#8217;s been done to the game&#8217;s setting. I&#8217;ll freely admit it&#8217;s probably due to old-fogeyness and I&#8217;m not above stealing material from other editions to use in my current game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ars Magica<\/strong>. 4th ed. I haven&#8217;t yet seen a copy of 5th ed, so I can&#8217;t really make a call on it. But I like Atlas&#8217; take on the game better than White Wolf&#8217;s or WOTC&#8217;s. I feel that 4th ed has the most flavor of being truly medieval-based and historically inspired.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Traveller<\/strong>. Marc Miller&#8217;s Traveller (T4). I found (despite the horrible copy editing job of the book) this edition of the rules much easier to pick up and play than the original Classic Traveller. I haven&#8217;t played any of the other editions beyond these two, but T4 is definitely my favorite so far. Plus, I like the early Third Imperium setting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are my preferences. But, as I mentioned above, I tend to take a little here and there from other editions of a game and shape them into my own house rules version of a game. So I&#8217;m curious &#8212; what edition of these games do you play and do you &#8220;borrow&#8221; from other editions. If you do, what do you use and how do you incorporate it into your game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edition wars. Where would D&amp;D be without them? Even when I first started playing D&amp;D back in 1980, there were already edition wars. Members of my first gaming group would argue the merits of Basic D&amp;D vs. Advanced D&amp;D vs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/edition-wars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,4],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-carnival","tag-old-editions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpggm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}