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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 5224006" data-attributes="member: 17551">Why do I have to try out 4e or anything else?  If I'm perfectly happy doing what I'm doing, why do I have to try to new thing before continuing to do what I was doing before in order to avoid being labeled with a word you consider being a pejorative?  (And I still don't think "grognard" is pejorative.)Who decries anything just because it's new?  I like older D&D, but don't like newer D&D, but I buy plenty of newer game products (much to Goodman Games and others' pleasure, much to my wife's displeasure).  The issue isn't, and never is, new game versus old game.  It's game I like versus game I don't like.  Just because we're not particularly interested in what WotC has to offer in terms of D&D, doesn't mean we're bunkered down.  If you were to actually spend some time reading some of the "old school" blogs and websites, such as Grognardia, you'd see a fairly substantial portion of the webspace is given over to reviewing and even creating NEW material.  Personally, WotC's conception of what D&D should be is so obviously different from mine that I have a hard time believing that anything they put out that was aimed at the other "mes" out there would grab a hold of us.And I get exasperated anytime anyone's complaints about older versions basically boils down to, "My DM was 12 and didn't have the slightest idea of what he was doing."  There's a lot of ignorance out there, and it doesn't seem to have an edition preference.Of course, the remedy to this is to not put out edition after edition after edition, and instead try to get an "evergreen" edition into every house in America...  but that's a subject for another tread.I've got 1e compatible monster books that have come out recently.  <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/monsters-of-myth/660822" target="_blank">Monsters of Myth</a> and <a href="http://http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=62837" target="_blank">Malevolent and Benign</a>.  Both are very good.  Anyone remotely interested in 1e style monsters should pick them up.  If I want the 4e DMG advice, I can always - y'know - buy them, just like the 4e DM can still go back to the great advice in the 1e DMG.</blockquote>

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