Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

Just to be odd, I rather liked 3E/3.5. It pretty much worked, and some bits I felt were silly in 2E got resolved. Some of this may have been related to using Arcana Unearthed, though.

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

I said that some things which should have been fixed were fixed in 3ed (thief skills and general ones were made the same, advanced classes, etc., more broad base for martial arts and similar "special tricks"). Still, it added much silliness of its own - but in any case not to the degree 4ed. did!
Unearthed Arcana for 3 ed. I didn't read - maybe it fixed something. Unearthed Arcana for 1ed. was certainly quite a good book - we even hybridized it with 2ed. (which was the time when we actually got it)! :)

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

loved unearthed arcana...

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

In 3/3.5 Unearthed Arcana =/= Arcana Unearthed (just to add confusion). Arcana Unearthed was done by Ed Greenwood, and was great fun.

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

Umm. the last D&D I played did not have any numbers attached to it. In fact, I think I played the first edition. Does that make me old? Yeah, I guess it does.

But it doesn't discount the fact the GG was a pioneer, and visionary.

Edit: acutually, the last D&D that I played was AD&D, so I guess I am slightly more current.

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

Iirc that is the second edition. It had advanced added to it.

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

you and me lingchi.

I actually have a copy of chainmail, (several actually) which tsr released prior to dnd as well as copies of all versions of dnd

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

1978 is slightly current, I guess :D

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

Nope, before 3e D&D and AD&D were two different games. AD&D had 2 editions from 1977 and 1989, D&D had 5 or 6 editions between about 1974 to 1994 or so.

3e D&D is actually 3rd edition of AD&D, they just dropped the "advanced" part since it made marketing people nervous and the original D&D was long discontinued anyway.

Re: Gary Gygax R.I.P.
 

J.Eric Holmes (first D&D blue box author) has passed.

And now today, Frank Frazetta has also gone to the great realms.