Heh, I still have my AD&D 1e books, I can run that whenever I want to. :)
*Chuckle* I'll vote with my dollars.Break out the pitchforks!
Yes, with a lot of stuff cleaned up and some good ideas folded in from 15 years of Dragon Magazine, etc ...Second edition didn't invalidate 1e too much. I've said before that by modern standards, 2e is really 1.5e. It's almost the same exact game.
I bought some 3e and 3.5e stuff so I could play with my brother and my nephew. The 3 core books were not all that big of a bit to my hobby budget.Third edition was a major departure from 2e, and caused quite a bit of resentment. Many players I know simply refused to change, and continue to play 2e to this day (although at least one solid 2e fan I know IRL has admitted to liking 5e).
I've not seen it that way, but that's an interesting perspective. I think that Pathfinder versus 4e is what drove the decision to 5e, but I may be wrong about that.5e upended 3e like 3e upended 2e.
Which is too bad since 3.x did some nice cleaning up and reorganizing of things across the board, structurally.It made 3e feel like less of a significant step toward some utopian D&D perfection and more like a misstep.
I just ran out of time and hobby money/interest to get invested in it. A lot of people had a lot of fun with that edition.