I've said somewhere else on this forum that I favoured 2nd edition and that's because basically I found it to be nothing much more than a slight update of 1st Ed. and the use of a D20 over the D10 gives a wider range of Difficulty Levels. Having said that, I actually default to the Twilight: 2000 (T2k) 2.2 rules which is essentially just an update of the D20 rules as used in DC 2nd Ed. to make T2k fall into line with the D20 rules system used in Traveller: The New Era.
I tend to use the 1st Ed. DC & T2k 2.2 books because I prefer them as reference books over the truncated 2nd Ed. Basic books.
I would be more than happy to make use of CR/DCIII for my next game because CR is again an update of the earlier system rather than some radical change. I vaguely recall that when first reading the CR rules that I might add some elements of the T2k 2.2 rules into the mix (particularly the Fatigue and Travel rules) to give me some more options. However I do find the lack of an index in CR to be particularly frustrating!
But that's all going to depend on if I can get a "next game" actually happening, I've said somewhere else in this forum that I'm pretty much over the fantasy RPGs but there just doesn't seem to be the interest in non-fantasy RPGs to get a game started
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