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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 3270228" data-attributes="member: 34865">I always felt that the (hollow) "Greyhawk as default setting again!" and cosmetic touches like reusing the dungeon from the DUNGEON MASTER'S GUIDE and other little things were just...bluh.  I mean if that was their idea of "reaching out" to old school gamers then...well, thanks for the cookie, I guess.Little things like that irritate the hell out of me about WotC.  I mean, they recently published the maps from G1, G2 and G3 on their own website like they're these cool, awesome things - and there is absolutely no context given for them at all.  Not "These maps were originally used in ... " or "Gary Gygax designed these fiendish giant lairs for the ... "As evidenced by many people in this particular forum, there's folks who didn't start playing D&D until far, far later than a lot of us, and I think things like reposting the maps without any background is a huge disservice to them, because they are totally without any context at all.I've said it before, d20 D&D doesn't "feel right" to me as a rulesystem because it isn't really a bridge back to my style of gaming.  It's a bridge to bring in your Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance/started-playing-with-2e folks.  While I recognize that they can't be shut out (folks bought a lot of FR stuff - myself included if you count a couple gold box games for my C64!), I wish there'd been a hell of a lot more for me in d20 D&D.</blockquote>

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