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lowkey13
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What I liked most about the early stuff (I am thinking OD&D, B/X, and especially AD&D) was that anything was possible.
Yes, it was serious. But it also had lots of humor (as you point out) and that was important to me. Just kinda sorta.
And the breaking of the fourth wall to the reader.
...not to mention the real sense of wonder by combining all the genres (sure, maybe you have a space ship in the middle of your elven forest, or an adventure in Wonderland, or the Finnish pantheon). It was just a gloriously mixed-up, messed-up grab bag.
Screw canon and continuity; give me the mess.