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Watching a video of two guys talking about the changes made in the new edition of D&D.
Right at the beginning they mention that if you don't actually read the new book, you're not going to see those changes.
Dur! I says, then... Oh wait.
It's something I'm guilty of.
I have no idea if some of the characters I made for Champions were actually compliant between the boxed set (2nd edition) and the spiffy hard cover (4th edition); but they worked.
LBB Traveller and The Traveller Book are not, entirely, the same thing either. Not sure if we even noticed at the time.
I've dealt with big changes in GURPS and trying to get the players to update their characters. At least one player would use older characters as a template for newer ones and that included stuff that was different in the new edition.
I've also been the player trying to get my head around the new rule set when I joined an AD&D 2e game and just did not understand the explanation for THACO. It's actually quite simple, but the GM did a bad job explaining and I was used to looking up that information on a table in the Dungeon Master's Guide.
At the time I didn't have the books, so I couldn't figure it out on my own.
1977 Traveller LBB and 1980 Traveler LBB are different. But mostly compatible. If I remember correctly The Traveller Book (what I started with) is mostly the same as 1980 LBB, plus a few supplements.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, even though I've played every version of AD&D from 1st edition through 5th edition, I don't seem to feel the need to get the latest books. Disclaimer, only played 4th edition once, at a convention, so I'm not really familiar with that rules set.
As you've noted here several times, and other have noted elsewhere, we can still use the books we played with in the 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, etc. Or completely other games. We're not beholden to SJG or WoTC to satisfy our gaming itch, and it's arguably better when we roll our own, as you noted the other day.