I played ADandD for years, lots of fun especially when you start to bend the rules to your liking. My DM's guide has a few places where rules have been modified or penned out completely.
I always enjoyed checking out the great net spellbook and seeing all the crazy spells that people come up with.
I pretty much gave up when edition 3 came out, too much invested in my old characters I guess, and too lazy to convert, and too broke to buy all the new books.