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That’s funny, I find AD&D to be simpler then the later editions just from reading the players handbook for it. Its certainly easier than 3rd and 4th, I remember our DM taking hours to find out battle outcome with 3rd (admittedly he was still new to that edition), we all got so tired of waiting for what dice result  meant we just throwed fireballs through doors after that. We tried doing another but our character sheets got lost and it would take a whole real world day to make characters (our setup was terrible, no printer and crappy 2000’s random generators).   When we did 4th as learning experience it was weeks of prep, and when we finally played we could only get past the first fight just barely for similar reasons (only this time we all where looking through the books do to on table mini rules coupled with pen and paper like rules in arcane combinations).