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<blockquote data-quote="Orryn Emrys" data-source="post: 4409739" data-attributes="member: 6799">Every once in a great while, we'll pull out our old First Edition or OD&amp;D materials for a little nostalgia... and it's fun!&nbsp; But to me, it invariably serves as a reminder that old school gaming is not what I'm looking for.&nbsp; Don't get me wrong... I enjoyed those years a great deal.&nbsp; I'm 32, and I've been playing since I was 8.&nbsp; I've spent years with each edition.&nbsp; But I've also grown up with the game, each edition easily representing a different era of my life... and I just can't find the same satisfaction in the games I played when I was young.I'm not playing 4E.&nbsp; I've run one entire adventure over six sessions in my current campaign converted to 4E, and it has a lot of great material.&nbsp; It's easy to run, has a fantastic toolset for DMing, and the combats can be fun... but it isn't D&amp;D to me, either.&nbsp; It's a gameset that seems to undermine a lot of the versatility that's come to define my game, after all these years of evolution.&nbsp; I didn't have any serious problems with 3.x; it seemed to address a lot of the issues I had with 2E... so I'm staying with 3.5, and doing my own revisions to the system to address many of the issues that 4E's high points have done a good job of addressing.Ultimately, I may not be &quot;old school&quot; anymore... but I understand where you're coming from.&nbsp; I hope you find what you're looking for.&nbsp; For me, nostalgia is a powerful thing... and I've learned that trying to rediscover the things that made D&amp;D fun for me back in the day would invariably require me to be the person I was... back in the day.*raises a glass for Old School D&amp;D*</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orryn Emrys, post: 4409739, member: 6799"] Every once in a great while, we'll pull out our old First Edition or OD&D materials for a little nostalgia... and it's fun! But to me, it invariably serves as a reminder that old school gaming is not what I'm looking for. Don't get me wrong... I enjoyed those years a great deal. I'm 32, and I've been playing since I was 8. I've spent [i]years[/i] with each edition. But I've also grown up [i]with[/i] the game, each edition easily representing a different era of my life... and I just can't find the same satisfaction in the games I played when I was young. I'm not playing 4E. I've run one entire adventure over six sessions in my current campaign converted to 4E, and it has a lot of great material. It's easy to run, has a fantastic toolset for DMing, and the combats can be fun... but it isn't D&D to me, either. It's a gameset that seems to undermine a lot of the versatility that's come to define my game, after all these years of evolution. I didn't have any serious problems with 3.x; it seemed to address a lot of the issues I had with 2E... so I'm staying with 3.5, and doing my own revisions to the system to address many of the issues that 4E's high points have done a good job of addressing. Ultimately, I may not be "old school" anymore... but I understand where you're coming from. I hope you find what you're looking for. For me, nostalgia is a powerful thing... and I've learned that trying to rediscover the things that made D&D fun for me back in the day would invariably require me to be the person I was... back in the day. *raises a glass for Old School D&D* [/QUOTE]

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