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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5046407" data-attributes="member: 58197">But if that were the case, why would retro-clones be doing well? I mean, as you say, there's no going back to when we played for the first time. No retro-clone can make the game new for us. (Unless you think people are buying retro-clones for nostalgia and then giving up on them after a few games, which some people undoubtedly do, but it doesn't seem like enough to drive the old-school renaissance.)Just as a note, my current gaming group consists mostly of people who were introduced to D&D for the first time in the 3.5 era. When Gary Gygax died, I got out my BECMI ruleset since I didn't have the 1E rulebooks handy, and we played a one-shot adventure in his memory. Everyone loved it, despite never having played it before - no nostalgia value for anybody except me.Retro-clones have more than just nostalgia going for them. There's something real there that has been lost in later editions. You may or may not be willing to abandon the advantages of those later editions to get it back - I'm not at that point yet, though "Castles and Crusades" is beginning to interest me - but it does exist.</blockquote>