I think this is the best I can do....
Day 7's question is "Favorite Edition".
Again, not an easy question to answer. I think there is an inherit bias that this question means "which edition of D&D" that I'm not entirely thrilled about. Don't get me wrong, I really liked AD&D even though I really didn't get to play it until I was an adult, and then not nearly as much as I wanted to because of work.
I really liked HackMaster. The "1st" edition of the game, which we all called 4th Edition because in our opinion it was the 4th Edition of AD&D in reality was about 50% 1st Edition Rules, 25% 2nd Edition rules, and 25% some of the publisher's home rules. HackMaster rocked back in the day, as long as you removed the legally-required parody crap out of it, which was surprisingly easy enough to do. I would have to say that the current edition of HackMaster is my favorite edition. My wife & I, along with our gaming group, pretty much got in on the ground floor....well at least after the very rough "WTF" version....I pitied those playtestors. Because of this, HackMaster really feels like it is "our game". Hell, our names are in some of the fricken books!
I really like the modularity of the game, since there are a bunch of rules I'm probably never going to use, and the fact that running a game doesn't require much of an additional learning curve as simply playing the game. If you can play, you can run.
HackMaster ("5th Edition") is definitely my game, but I'm having fun playing others.....
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