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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6679832" data-attributes="member: 29398">Interesting point.For me, it's the run from about 1984 to 1987.  I'd gotten in before that, but those years were the best.  I was cutting my DM teeth, playing in a great game, enjoying all the new product coming out, and helping redesign 1e to become the system we still use.I've a hunch, however, that ten years from now I'll look back on the run just completed - say, 2009-2014 - with every bit as much fondness.  My current campaign has been wonderful (entirely thanks to the players!), I've made it to several GenCons in that time, I'm enjoying the new 5e products more than almost anything from the 3e-4e years, and I've been playing in a great game as well.Our FLGS here in town is actually quite good, but I've been spoiled: I feel that magic now in the GenCon dealers' hall. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You're quite right that the internet has greatly reduced the 'wow' factor in many ways.Lan-"looking round the game store, at the new things trying to tempt us - not a glimpse of the magic found in the early days [from 'Edition List']"-efan</blockquote>