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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9166535" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>I think this is overgeneralizing a bit.</p><p></p><p>There were certainly lots of folks who happily mingled them, like you and Greylord. I played in a number of convention games like this, where the two were mingled. They were the minority in my experience, but of course our experiences were local.</p><p></p><p>There were some of us (especially those who were a little younger and didn't have all our house rules for 1E settled) who were relieved to have the more digestible and comprehensible 2E rules, and retained our 1E books for inspirational value while happily switching to 2E.</p><p></p><p>There were also lots of folks who said "Nah, I have no need for it", especially since (as you point out), TSR made a point of making it mostly reverse compatible. So if someone was happy with 1E they could keep buying supplements and modules for 2E if they wanted and wouldn't need the core books.</p><p></p><p>There was a smaller chunk of the latter group who was actively angry about it, but there wasn't really edition warring. Especially since the proportion of us who were online at the time (on places like Prodigy, Compuserve, Usenet, and locally-hosted BBS message boards) was MUCH smaller. The real edition wars didn't start until a huge percentage of gamers were online.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9166535, member: 7026594"] I think this is overgeneralizing a bit. There were certainly lots of folks who happily mingled them, like you and Greylord. I played in a number of convention games like this, where the two were mingled. They were the minority in my experience, but of course our experiences were local. There were some of us (especially those who were a little younger and didn't have all our house rules for 1E settled) who were relieved to have the more digestible and comprehensible 2E rules, and retained our 1E books for inspirational value while happily switching to 2E. There were also lots of folks who said "Nah, I have no need for it", especially since (as you point out), TSR made a point of making it mostly reverse compatible. So if someone was happy with 1E they could keep buying supplements and modules for 2E if they wanted and wouldn't need the core books. There was a smaller chunk of the latter group who was actively angry about it, but there wasn't really edition warring. Especially since the proportion of us who were online at the time (on places like Prodigy, Compuserve, Usenet, and locally-hosted BBS message boards) was MUCH smaller. The real edition wars didn't start until a huge percentage of gamers were online. [/QUOTE]
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