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<blockquote data-quote="Weregrognard" data-source="post: 6019212" data-attributes="member: 26396">Hmm...maybe I was mistaken in my theory.&nbsp; The poll results suggest to me that either a) those who started roleplaying during this time are a minority, and/or b) fans of 2e (the rules) are a minority.&nbsp; I freely admit dropping 2e like a hot potato when 3e came out.&nbsp; Heck!&nbsp; I had been reading the Dragon preview articles with great interest before then.&nbsp; I was swept up in the d20 feevah just like everyone else.From your responses, it seems the late 80s/early 90s generation of gamers is not so much &quot;lost&quot; as diffused through different D&amp;D editions, 2e settings, and/or other games.&nbsp; If anything, we were a generation of plenty, gorging on the smorgasbord of 2e books and boxed sets; oblivious of TSR's financial troubles…or maybe we’re not our own generation/thing at all, and I’m just waxing nostalgic <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=":)" />I feel 2e had some good, even innovative, things going for it, but it could never shake the &quot;why can't you be more like your older brother?&quot; problem.&nbsp; Years later, I realize 2e was incomplete - I would not run it today without a copy of the 1e DMG.&nbsp; I did feel something was off about 2e at the time, but didn't pay it any mind (I was playing the “Advanced” game, after all). It was more of a &quot;am I doing this right?&quot;* feeling.&nbsp; Of course, we played anyway, and made 2e our own thing, as I suspect others did too.Thanks to those that voted and responded!*When I began with the Black Box, I though D&amp;D had to be played with a large map and (cardboard) miniatures.&nbsp; All my first dungeons were drawn on poster-board.&nbsp; We later gravitated to the Theater of the Mind method.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Weregrognard, post: 6019212, member: 26396"] Hmm...maybe I was mistaken in my theory. The poll results suggest to me that either a) those who started roleplaying during this time are a minority, and/or b) fans of 2e (the rules) are a minority. I freely admit dropping 2e like a hot potato when 3e came out. Heck! I had been reading the [I]Dragon [/I]preview articles with great interest before then. I was swept up in the [I]d20 feevah [/I]just like everyone else. From your responses, it seems the late 80s/early 90s generation of gamers is not so much "lost" as diffused through different D&D editions, 2e settings, and/or other games. If anything, we were a generation of plenty, gorging on the smorgasbord of 2e books and boxed sets; oblivious of TSR's financial troubles…or maybe we’re not our own generation/thing at all, and I’m just waxing nostalgic :) I feel 2e had some good, even innovative, things going for it, but it could never shake the [I]"why can't you be more like your older brother?" [/I]problem. Years later, I realize 2e [B]was [/B]incomplete - I would not run it today without a copy of the 1e DMG. I did feel something was off about 2e at the time, but didn't pay it any mind (I was playing the “Advanced” game, after all). It was more of a "am I doing this right?"* feeling. Of course, we played anyway, and made 2e our own thing, as I suspect others did too. Thanks to those that voted and responded! [SIZE="1"]*When I began with the Black Box, I though D&D had to be played with a large map and (cardboard) miniatures. All my first dungeons were drawn on poster-board. We later gravitated to the Theater of the Mind method.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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