Irda Ranger
First Post
Er, to completely avoid the whole "Just how old school is 4e?" conversation, I'll just respond to the OP.
Yeah, I've seen it too. 1E, BECMI and OD&D (plus their clones) have all gotten a lot of attention lately. I think it was the designers and many others (including me) discussing not just 3e vs. 4e but 4e vs. all previous editions. It was a reminder that they were there. Then a few people posted "Yeah, we're still playing _E, and it's a blast." Which was probably a kind of "That never occurred to me" news to a lot of people, who may have assumed that playing pre-3E wasn't an option (outdated, no groups, whatever).
I'll also just toss a data point out there too. I'm trying to get an RC group together to run some of the old school quests. That's a direct result of 4E being "not D&D" to me once I tried it. I've never played RC before (started with 2e) but I want to see what everyone's talking about.
Yeah, I've seen it too. 1E, BECMI and OD&D (plus their clones) have all gotten a lot of attention lately. I think it was the designers and many others (including me) discussing not just 3e vs. 4e but 4e vs. all previous editions. It was a reminder that they were there. Then a few people posted "Yeah, we're still playing _E, and it's a blast." Which was probably a kind of "That never occurred to me" news to a lot of people, who may have assumed that playing pre-3E wasn't an option (outdated, no groups, whatever).
I'll also just toss a data point out there too. I'm trying to get an RC group together to run some of the old school quests. That's a direct result of 4E being "not D&D" to me once I tried it. I've never played RC before (started with 2e) but I want to see what everyone's talking about.