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<blockquote data-quote="drscott46" data-source="post: 3185183" data-attributes="member: 46144"><p>Well, rock music that's almost twenty years old (such as Guns N' Roses' <em>Appetite for Destruction</em>) is considered "classic rock", is it not? 1989 is almost twenty years ago. It isn't that much of a stretch.</p><p></p><p>I'm not exactly a kid anymore (turning thirty shortly), and my D&D experience began at a very young age, around eight, with the Mentzer Red Box and the 98th printing of X1 and so on. Heck, I had never even seen the "old" TSR module cover style (you know, the ones co-opted by the Goodman DCC mods) until after the fact.</p><p></p><p>My "golden age" was from when I discovered 2e (1989) to about '95. Around '89 I put away my Mentzer and was ready for the Big Boy Game. I realize that historical canon says that everything from this time sucked because Zeb Cook destroyed AD&D or something like that, but surely there are other gamers around my age that have some great stories to tell. (And I say this while having the utmost respect for the Gygax era, etc. I even read all twelve Q&A threads!)</p><p></p><p>As I said, I have regretfully few of my own because economics dictated I use the much-cheaper Dungeon magazine (one issue being around a third of the price of a full module), but surely some Gen-Xer parents were more generous than mine, eh?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drscott46, post: 3185183, member: 46144"] Well, rock music that's almost twenty years old (such as Guns N' Roses' [I]Appetite for Destruction[/I]) is considered "classic rock", is it not? 1989 is almost twenty years ago. It isn't that much of a stretch. I'm not exactly a kid anymore (turning thirty shortly), and my D&D experience began at a very young age, around eight, with the Mentzer Red Box and the 98th printing of X1 and so on. Heck, I had never even seen the "old" TSR module cover style (you know, the ones co-opted by the Goodman DCC mods) until after the fact. My "golden age" was from when I discovered 2e (1989) to about '95. Around '89 I put away my Mentzer and was ready for the Big Boy Game. I realize that historical canon says that everything from this time sucked because Zeb Cook destroyed AD&D or something like that, but surely there are other gamers around my age that have some great stories to tell. (And I say this while having the utmost respect for the Gygax era, etc. I even read all twelve Q&A threads!) As I said, I have regretfully few of my own because economics dictated I use the much-cheaper Dungeon magazine (one issue being around a third of the price of a full module), but surely some Gen-Xer parents were more generous than mine, eh? [/QUOTE]
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