I have been playing 1 form of D&D since the red box, these days I run a game world that has a smattering from my favorite authors, My world has some strong ties to the old Arduin system from David Hargrave,
new players or " the everyone gets a trophy " crowd should stay clear ya wont like it. when ya do dumb things ya die.
And that DM of 2 games, i been running 1 of em most of 12 yrs,