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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2045529" data-attributes="member: 8530">What is the 1st Edition Feel?     That depends on who you are and what you started playing with.   For old timers like me, it's the RPG that we grew up on and has a high level of comfort because of that.   I enjoy playing 1st Edition games, but I also enjoy a good game of a D20 RPG.   The key to me is having the enthusiastic players and a DM with an overactive imagination, not which set of rules are being used.1E also has a nostalgic feel to me, but that's because it is one of the many things that reminds me of my college years.     I'm reminded of a passage from Mark Shopper's wonderful book about the Beatles titled Paperback Writer.  That book was a satire of the Beatles story and concludes with a reunion of the group a decade after the breakup.  When the group gets back together they are in a creative lull and put out a new album with songs that are total garbage, and they then go on tour to promote it.  They get boo's when they try to play the new material but the audience finally warms when they switch to their oldies.   After the concert John tells the others "They didn't want The Beatles.  They wanted the Sixties.  They just wanted to relive an earlier time and remember the good things with none of the baggage."So others like me will remember all the best elements about gaming 20 years ago - being about to pull together a dozen friends for a quick pick-up game that could go in any direction.   The fast-and-loose rules that let you just move on without stopping the game for twenty-minutes to look something up and decide on how it did or didn't work in conjunction with other rules.   Basically, the fact that the game was just plain fun to play.  There were lots of negatives about that system too, many of which have been noted in the prior five pages of this thread, but for me it will always be a happy memory.</blockquote>

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