Its the smell!!

[joethelawyer]

Forked from: Would you like to see commemorative editions of the core rules of all older editions?

Not really. I'd rather have the orignals, complete with their old "smell". And eBay provides them in abundance at super-cheap prices. I've gotten tons of old stuff that way.

I thought i was alone in that weird fetish. I LOVE THE SMELL OF THE AD&D BOOKS. i dont know what it was, the paper, ink, binding, or some combination of those three, but the smell of the AD&D books gives me the warm fuzzies of great feelings from the carefree days of my youth. every once in a while i pull one of them off the shelf, open it up and stick my nose in and breathe deeply, hoping for a whiff of 1985.

that was probably to much information, but, whatever.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I personally love the smell of new electronics; like a new computer/laptop or console.

 

[Zustiur]

For me it's usually the smell of new plastic miniatures when you first open the box. But that's because I've spent so much time around Warhammer 40,000. I do get the old book thing too. I've got my 2E MM right here, and it smells great.
I just tested the 3E and 4E MMs. They don't smell good.

 

[Gothmog]

Well, there are at least three weirdos Joe- I love smelling my AD&D 1e books too. I don't know what it is, but they have a very distinctive and pleasant smell. I've noticed some of the C&C books smell the same way- intentional perhaps?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I love the feel of the paper and binding in my 1E books. It feels like they're built to last. Touching the paper is ... sensual.

The later generations of books seem to all have slick paper like a cheap greasy magazine.

(No sense of smell, here.)

 

[darjr]

I love the feel of the paper and binding in my 1E books. It feels like they're built to last.

Yes, if the abuse the ones I own have seen is any testament, they were.

 

[joethelawyer]

I love the feel of the paper and binding in my 1E books. It feels like they're built to last. Touching the paper is ... sensual.

Yes, if the abuse the ones I own have seen is any testament, they were.

yeah my 2nd ed books have virtually crumbled, while the AD&D books are still in great condition (except potato chip and cheetos fingerprints), even though we played with the AD&D books far longer than the 2nd ed books.

 

[Serendipity]

Forked from: Would you like to see commemorative editions of the core rules of all older editions?
I thought i was alone in that weird fetish. I LOVE THE SMELL OF THE AD&D BOOKS.

For me it was the smell of the 1981 printings of the modules. I think it was some combination of paper-ink that Random House was using in those days.

 

[darjr]

For me it was the smell of the 1981 printings of the modules. I think it was some combination of paper-ink that Random House was using in those days.

I totally forgot about that. The I series had that smell in spades. My copy of Pharaoh and I4 and I5 still do, a little.


OK, mostly only in my memories.

 

[Serendipity]

I totally forgot about that. The I series had that smell in spades. My copy of Pharaoh and I4 and I5 still do, a little.
OK, mostly only in my memories.

By the mid nineties some of my old modules still had "that adventurous smell" but most of them had shed it (though my 1e PH got mustier as time went on....)
Then I lost all of my books, gaming and otherwise, thanks to Tropical Storm Alison. Good times there.....