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<blockquote data-quote="DragonLancer" data-source="post: 9784655" data-attributes="member: 11868"><p>Partly it comes from nostalgia. It also depends on what you base the concept of an &quot;age&quot; on. As someone who started their role-playing in the mid-80's with 1st edition AD&amp;D, I definately class the 80's to early 90's as the Golden Age. There is definately that element of nostalgia but it's also the decade where role-playing games exploded and took off. RPG's became global and there were so many classic games other than D&amp;D.... Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Rolemaster/MERP, Paranoia, Star Trek (FASA) and the first Star Wars (WEG). The D&amp;D adventure modules, while they may not have been the quality than we see in later years, are still talked about fondly and with enthusiasm. I don't see that from other games and modules in the decades since. The 80s was a decade where although RPGs may not have had the popularity or been able to reach everywhere like the hobby does now, it was the high point of gaming for many of us who remember it and can compare to more recent decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="DragonLancer, post: 9784655, member: 11868"] Partly it comes from nostalgia. It also depends on what you base the concept of an "age" on. As someone who started their role-playing in the mid-80's with 1st edition AD&D, I definately class the 80's to early 90's as the Golden Age. There is definately that element of nostalgia but it's also the decade where role-playing games exploded and took off. RPG's became global and there were so many classic games other than D&D.... Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Rolemaster/MERP, Paranoia, Star Trek (FASA) and the first Star Wars (WEG). The D&D adventure modules, while they may not have been the quality than we see in later years, are still talked about fondly and with enthusiasm. I don't see that from other games and modules in the decades since. The 80s was a decade where although RPGs may not have had the popularity or been able to reach everywhere like the hobby does now, it was the high point of gaming for many of us who remember it and can compare to more recent decades. [/QUOTE]

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