D&D General Dnd and what has changed

[payn]

Seeing the words "3e" and "retroclone" in direct proximity with each other is aging me ten years at a time

 

[Alzrius]

OSR fans seemed to have dumped THAC0 by 2012

The aforementioned For Gold and Glory has THACO, "To Hit A Combat Opponent."

 

[Zardnaar]

The aforementioned For Gold and Glory has THACO, "To Hit A Combat Opponent."

It predates 2012 iirc.

 

[Alzrius]

It predates 2012 iirc.

Really? The DriveThruRPG sales page of For Gold & Glory (affiliate link) says that it came out on September 11th, 2015.

 

[Marc17]

1E. I dont think anyone's that nostalgic. Fans of that era seemed to have migrated to B/X clones.

As somebody that has been in several 1E AD&D games in the last decade, the ones that are nostalgic for it seem to specifically want to play the actual game rather than a retroclone, either to experience it, try and play it RAW, or just to reuse all that Hermetic knowledge of it that we still have stored in our heads.

 

[Zardnaar]

Really? The DriveThruRPG sales page of For Gold & Glory (affiliate link) says that it came out on September 11th, 2015.

Sure i had a look at it 2012-14 as I was doing clones then. Before 5E landed.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As somebody that has been in several 1E AD&D games in the last decade, the ones that are nostalgic for it seem to specifically want to play the actual game rather than a retroclone, either to experience it, try and play it RAW, or just to reuse all that Hermetic knowledge of it that we still have stored in our heads.

And more than 2,000 people backed the latest edition of OSRIC earlier this year, which is explicitly a cleaned-up version of AD&D.

 

[1QD]

And more than 2,000 people backed the latest edition of OSRIC earlier this year, which is explicitly a cleaned-up version of AD&D.

Can I ask why it had soo many backers?

 

[TheSword]

Well you don’t roll % dice for thieves skills any more!

 

[TerraDave]

D&D is popular again, like 40 years ago.

(It’s a question if that popularity will collapse, like 40 years ago).