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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Older Beholder" data-source="post: 8706307" data-attributes="member: 6813585">I can understand that people would see past editions as a golden age of lore. Although I don't feel the need to label such things with colours.When I think of 2E for example, I think of box sets. Lots and lots of box sets, for a vast variety of campaign settings, brimming with new worlds and new ideas. Some great, some not so great. My old 2E box sets still take up more shelf space than all my 5E books.And while I have fond memories of those worlds and the campaigns and characters they inspired, it's not always as I remember when I look through that material now. I was surprised when I went back to Ravenloft : Realms of Terror, that the book in the box is only like 144 pgs, and 8 of those were just family tree charts. 5E feels like it has taken a different approach, and has moved away from extensive lore, but there's still plenty of great stuff. The lore for 5E I find is just as inspiring as with any previous edition. Just as a recent example I was reading the monster lore for Stone Cursed where it mentioned that they are created from a petrified person using a ritual involving Cockatrice feathers and Basilisk blood, and a couple of adventure ideas started writing themselves in my head from that almost immediately.</blockquote>