What's your favorite version of DND?
4e is my favorite overall. The killing curse was the save system. When I play 4e I HATE that part. And I mean HATE it. It is the end of the system' use. and sadly my group's fix (when I hada a group around 2021-ish) was very poor, the save system is built to be random, and our fix was to apply bumps, which can lead to embarassing results.
I love 4e though. I would love 35, and did but I exhausted it, much like Exalted 1e and 1.5. I did it ALL, and I mean I played Samurai from 1st to 24th. Wizards and clerics dozens, plural dozen, of each to epic. I played a wizard in Living Greyhawk to 12th, and while I didn't max out level, I maxed out Intelligence and then some. 3.5 was a blast, but I'm tired of it. PF is objectively more filled in. Better? I think for me it would have been, if it existed at in tandem to 3.5, as if it was choice between the two while both developed. To me, however, it (PF) just scratches the same itch that was there for 3.5, that I feel has been rubbed raw.
I like 2e, but it feels like an even more expansive 3.5, in that is was made with love, unlike many 3.5 books...but there are sooooo many! I think if I wanted to play D&D, 2e would be my next attempt. I like "dead" systems, that is starting to play systems (now, not always) that have been retired, so I start from day 1 with all content. It's what I did with Exalted 2e, and D&D 4e.
Dragonstrike doesn't have full replayability. Especially the VHS, but I feel very privileged to have played that a few times (we only watched the VHS a total of twice, one in more bizarre fascination, the other to fully realize the cultural humor). I played each scenario a few times, and we broke it, but for a board game, made so long ago, prior to many interactions, I loved it!
4e though is a labor, but one I'm still inspired by and driven to use...D&D asa whole just isn't on the height it was during RPGA's run of Living Greyhawk. For me, that ship sailed, and I was lucky to be on it. As a memory, I enjoyed 3.5 most. 50 hours each each for over 15 years. I had a great exposure to new people at conventions with LG, and a dedicated playgroup for just around 20 years. 4e is "new" to me. It allows me to explore forced moved, even though I have to slog, and I mean slog, through the save system. Forced movement in 4e feels right, and 3.5 forced movement sucked. I love the movement based effects (restrained, immobilized, etc...) in 4e, so much I endure saving against effects that become queued and very time consuming.