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<blockquote data-quote="Grimstaff" data-source="post: 4525174" data-attributes="member: 34880">Ha! This is very funny Shazman, but kind of missing the point. Old-school &quot;feel&quot; has very little to do with rules (in fact I'd argue very few of us 1E vets were even playing by the 1E RAW), and more to do with atmosphere, game objectives, and DM focus (as in, focusing on facillitating a fun game as opposed to focusing on the rules). By your argument, if I added 30 hp kobolds and healing surges to my 1E game, it suddenly wouldn't feel like 1E anymore. Its certainly true that the 1E players handbook contains no Warlords, wizard implements, or Fortitude defense-enhancing cloaks. Its also certainly true that has nothing whatsoever to do with the &quot;feel&quot; element a lot of us are talking about.Regardless of that, there are plenty of threads with testimonials from folks who have caught a great big whif of old-school from their 4E games, so those threads are probably a better place for that discussion. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My curiosity was more toward whether that feel was fostering an increased interest in older editions, not whether that feel existed. It may indeed be that folks want to continue with that feel, but with the simpler rulesets of 1E or B/X, or it may be that being attacked by a horde of those 30hp (or 1hp minion) kobolds from Keep on the Shadowfell brought on a wave of nostalgia for the horde of 2-5hp kobolds from Keep on the Borderlands, or it may be completely coincidental. It just seems like a notable increase to me...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grimstaff, post: 4525174, member: 34880"] Ha! This is very funny Shazman, but kind of missing the point. Old-school "feel" has very little to do with rules (in fact I'd argue very few of us 1E vets were even playing by the 1E RAW), and more to do with atmosphere, game objectives, and DM focus (as in, focusing on facillitating a fun game as opposed to focusing on the rules). By your argument, if I added 30 hp kobolds and healing surges to my 1E game, it suddenly wouldn't feel like 1E anymore. Its certainly true that the 1E players handbook contains no Warlords, wizard implements, or Fortitude defense-enhancing cloaks. Its also certainly true [I]that has nothing whatsoever[/I] to do with the "feel" element a lot of us are talking about. Regardless of that, there are plenty of threads with testimonials from folks who have caught a great big whif of old-school from their 4E games, so those threads are probably a better place for that discussion. ;) My curiosity was more toward whether that feel was fostering an increased interest in older editions, not whether that feel existed. It may indeed be that folks want to continue with that feel, but with the simpler rulesets of 1E or B/X, or it may be that being attacked by a horde of those 30hp (or 1hp minion) kobolds from Keep on the Shadowfell brought on a wave of nostalgia for the horde of 2-5hp kobolds from Keep on the Borderlands, or it may be completely coincidental. It just seems like a notable increase to me...:) [/QUOTE]

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