"First Edition Feel"

[Gentlegamer]

Not to forget that he had invented nuclear weapons.

Then there was 1st level assassin who wrote in to say he successfully made his assassination role against Waldorf.

Ah, those were great days in the Dragon letters pages!

Remember Allycia the Fair vs. Scud the Invincible?

 

[Shemeska]

Clark: First Edition is the cover of the old DMG with the City of Brass; it is Judges Guild; it is Type IV demons not Tanaari and Baatezu; it is the Vault of the Drow not Drizzt Do'urden; it is the Tomb of Horrors not the Ruins of Myth Drannor; it is orcs not ogrillons; it is mind flayers not Ilithids (or however they spell it); it is Tolkien, Moorcock, Howard and Lieber, not Eddings, Hickman, Jordan and Salavatore; it is definitely Orcus and the demon-princes and not the Blood War; it is Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound not Elminster's Evasion; and it is Artifacts and Relics from the old DMG (with all the cool descriptions).

So it's all about 1st edition nostalgia with a hate-on for 2e material?

*chuckle*

Maybe it's just me as a 3e initiate to DnD who adores the massive flavor and fluff of 2e stuff I've gone back to find, but that '1e feel' above really, really comes off as just bitter pining (with a misspelling of Illithids).

 

[Grazzt]

So it's all about 1st edition nostalgia with a hate-on for 2e material?

*chuckle*

Yes.

Maybe it's just me as a 3e initiate to DnD who adores the massive flavor and fluff of 2e stuff I've gone back to find, but that '1e feel' above really, really comes off as just bitter pining (with a misspelling of Illithids).

Nah- not at all...but, hey to each their own.