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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Omak Darkleaf" data-source="post: 9404148" data-attributes="member: 7045897">My mother gave me the Blue Box Basic Set I’d begged for in 1980 for my eleventh birthday and my friends and I played Holmes Basic for a few months before switching to AD&D the following spring. I played first edition long past the expiration date; even though I bought the 2e books when they came out, I didn’t play in a 2e campaign until 1996, and I only played 2e for a few years, forced to give it up when I moved away for graduate school. I ended up taking a twenty year hiatus from the game altogether, and I didn’t play again until a friend raved to me about 5e in 2019, which when I started playing again.It’s like being Rip Van Winkle. I went to sleep when we still used THAC0 and woke up to the d20 system. Ability scores were out of order. There were exotic newfangled classes like warlock and sorcerer. Bards were full casters. There was concentration and attunement, advantage and disadvantage. Tasha was no longer evil and Graz’zt was no longer a demon. I know how Kirk felt in the Mirror Universe.But I have adapted and now I’m making up for lost time. I currently play in six games, and I’m the oldest person at each table. I’ve met a lot of people since I returned to the hobby and have almost never been treated like the old guy. I just pretend to understand the memes and take care of business on the battlefield.Cheers! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🍻" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f37b.png" title="Clinking beer mugs    :beers:" data-shortname=":beers:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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