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Originally Posted by Andrew Rilstone
Was there ever a playable version of D&D before 3rd edition?
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Well I for one now sure as hell wonder
what exactly we were doing all those years before 3rd Edition....
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I confess to being a smidgeon out of the loop in terms of current systems. But can "Lenin" really be right to say that their aren't any current games which are mainly about combat; and that if you want to play games where fighters fight and MUs mu you're best option is to pick up a thirty year old fanzine that doesn't work?
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Hmmm, I'd say you could run a "fighters fight, MUs mu, etc." game quite well with quite a number of systems these days since to me a lot has to do with characters being suitably specialized into their niches along with a certain set of motivations. Castles and Crusades strikes me as the most obvious choice in this regard, being explicitly designed to do that sort of thing, but you could quite easily run 3.X in that fashion. Indeed I'd say that there was an intentionally retro aspect to 3E from day one when the authors said "go back to the dungeon."
Jay