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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chromnos" data-source="post: 265788" data-attributes="member: 5696">Well shucks.You guys may be right. I may be seeing through the rose colored glasses of youth. But where are the days when you could walk into any supermarket, or any toy store, or any hobby shop and see a Dieties and Demigods or a Players Handbook or watch a movie as mainstream as ET and find D&D as part of the story line?I remember D&D before the bible thumpers got their self righteous paws on it and started accusing us of being demon worshippers, child killers or the criminally insane. There was a time period probably from 1978-1984 where it was all in the open. It was mainstream. Not just fantasy novels which always go through popularity cycles (CS Lewis, Madeline Lingle, and Susan Cooper all being the J.K. Rowlings of their day) but the D&D game in all its unbridled strangeness. I remember when every kid wanted to play it, when it was cooler than video games, sweeter than popsickles.I hope I'm wrong. I hope the game is coming back and that this is the beginning of a new golden age. That people won't see the game as just a pass-time of geeks but rather for what it really is- an active and very entertaining exercise for the imagination.Me- I won't think it's another golden age until I see a damn Legends and Lore or a PH in a Giant, or a Fresh Fields, or even a Wal Mart.-C</blockquote>