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<blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2044987" data-attributes="member: 12706">In my mind, &quot;1E feel&quot; and to a large extent &quot;2E feel&quot; (since I never really even understood there was a difference until late in 2E - the DM always handled the parts that made that matter) is PRE-INTERNET feel. Not to say that I don't enjoy the way things are now - ENWorld, a global D&amp;D community, and gaming resources galore are great! But there was a certain feel to the game when you just had a few books and a few friends, and you didn't tell anyone you played because they might think you were Lucifer <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=";)" />, and your game, even though it was run from the books, was more homebrew than anything else because the rules were incomplete, self-contradictory, and your Dungeon Master's word was FINAL - to the extent that you may have had one or two notebooks or Trapper Keepers of notes and rulings about the way things worked in your little shared world.It's the difference between that secret spot you used to go to to think, that no one or maybe just your best friends knew about, and the coffee shop you sometimes stop at with friends now - just like lots of other people. Both are good things, but there's something that just feels... (lost? commercialized? blasphemed? overthought? brighter? pedestrian?) Well, something that just feels.It's probably something about getting older, period, rather than anything about the game - I get irritated and nostalgic for Doritos back when they were &quot;Nacho Cheese&quot; instead of &quot;Nacho Cheesier&quot; and tasted better, too. At least, in my mind, they did. And I'm sure in twenty years there will be people who feel that way about 3E, too.But I miss Egghead. I miss Atari - the real one, not this software distributor wearing their name tag. And I want MY MTV back, dammit. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Torm, post: 2044987, member: 12706"] In my mind, "1E feel" and to a large extent "2E feel" (since I never really even understood there was a difference until late in 2E - the DM always handled the parts that made that matter) is PRE-INTERNET feel. Not to say that I don't enjoy the way things are now - ENWorld, a global D&D community, and gaming resources galore are great! But there was a certain feel to the game when you just had a few books and a few friends, and you didn't tell anyone you played because they might think you were Lucifer ;), and your game, even though it was run from the books, was more homebrew than anything else because the rules were incomplete, self-contradictory, and your Dungeon Master's word was FINAL - to the extent that you may have had one or two notebooks or Trapper Keepers of notes and rulings about the way things worked in your little shared world. It's the difference between that secret spot you used to go to to think, that no one or maybe just your best friends knew about, and the coffee shop you sometimes stop at with friends now - just like lots of other people. Both are good things, but there's something that just feels... (lost? commercialized? blasphemed? overthought? brighter? pedestrian?) Well, something that just [I]feels[/I]. It's probably something about getting older, period, rather than anything about the game - I get irritated and nostalgic for Doritos back when they were "Nacho Cheese" instead of "Nacho Chees[B]ier[/B]" and tasted better, too. At least, in my mind, they did. And I'm sure in twenty years there will be people who feel that way about 3E, too. But I miss Egghead. I miss Atari - the [I]real[/I] one, not this software distributor wearing their name tag. And I want [B]MY[/B] MTV back, dammit. ;) [/QUOTE]

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