Armchair Expert Comments on Dungeons and Dragons
I bought the basic and expert sets, but we really only played 1st ed Advanced Dungeons and Dragons when I was growing up. Noticed how I didn’t say that I have been playing D&D since I was 13? Our DM, as well as some of our players, acquired many of the popular modules of the 80′s to include Pharaoh, Keep on the Borderlands, Ravenloft, Tomb of Horrors, Vault of the Drow and many more. We’d just play them over and over hoping to forget enough of the details over time so that we could re-play them without it us experiencing the adventure as just another rerun months later. They were good times. Sneak around, find a monster, maybe attempt to kill it, and take it’s loot. Rinse repeat.
Since then our same group has turned to d20, 3.0, 3.5 and now Pathfinder. We don’t change much. We’re not adverse to change, but d20/3.0 just made sense to us and Pathfinder was more ‘business as usual’ than the alternative – 4th Ed D&D.
This is not a post on which edition is best or what game is best. I’ll be getting to my point here in a second.
