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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7943686" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I played it. Enjoyed it immensely most of the time I was playing it.</p><p></p><p>Would never play it again. I've test run games using it, but it's so primitive, clunky, and opaque compared to a more modern system. I had a lot of frustrations with it at the time that I was continually trying to house rule around. And I have even more frustrations with it now than I had then because I've used so much more technology since then than I had available at the time.</p><p></p><p>There are still parts of it I love, and I have a great deal of nostalgia for it, and I like the lack of number inflation compared to recent editions, but before I'd play again I'd have to rewrite the rules.</p><p></p><p>And the effort involved in that would not be worth it. I'd end up with something that was almost but not quite 3e, that used a lot of 1e terminology and wore 1e clothes but wouldn't play that differently than my 3e house rules. </p><p></p><p>For areas that I'm frustrated with 3e, I've found it to be useful thought experiments to imagine what I would have wanted the 1e rules to be, and then write those, and then convert those to 3e. But ultimately, 1e is like an old classic car - it looks great sitting in a garage and taken out rarely but you wouldn't want to use it as a commuter vehicle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7943686, member: 4937"] I played it. Enjoyed it immensely most of the time I was playing it. Would never play it again. I've test run games using it, but it's so primitive, clunky, and opaque compared to a more modern system. I had a lot of frustrations with it at the time that I was continually trying to house rule around. And I have even more frustrations with it now than I had then because I've used so much more technology since then than I had available at the time. There are still parts of it I love, and I have a great deal of nostalgia for it, and I like the lack of number inflation compared to recent editions, but before I'd play again I'd have to rewrite the rules. And the effort involved in that would not be worth it. I'd end up with something that was almost but not quite 3e, that used a lot of 1e terminology and wore 1e clothes but wouldn't play that differently than my 3e house rules. For areas that I'm frustrated with 3e, I've found it to be useful thought experiments to imagine what I would have wanted the 1e rules to be, and then write those, and then convert those to 3e. But ultimately, 1e is like an old classic car - it looks great sitting in a garage and taken out rarely but you wouldn't want to use it as a commuter vehicle. [/QUOTE]
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