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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 4896477" data-attributes="member: 59082">I don't follow you. Nostalgia implies yearning or longing for something gone or of the past. You're right, it doesn't have to be something specific--actually, it can be quite general (although I would argue that the experience of nostalgia is rooted in a specific experience). My feeling is that the nostalgia that is related to Old Schoolism has a specific tone to it, which of course varies with the individual, but usually has some kind of wonder and magic in it. It would be interesting to poll D&amp;D players on what edition they prefer and why prefer it to see what people come up with. Perhaps to stimulate a wider range of response than simply mechanical reasons, each individual would give a mechanical/design/game reason (e.g. I prefer Defenses to Saving Throws, or vice versa) and an emotive/aesthetic one. Or to put it another way, one answer for both the Left and Right brains.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 4896477, member: 59082"] I don't follow you. Nostalgia implies yearning or longing for something gone or of the past. You're right, it doesn't have to be something specific--actually, it can be quite general (although I would argue that the experience of nostalgia is rooted in a specific experience). My feeling is that the nostalgia that is related to Old Schoolism has a specific tone to it, which of course varies with the individual, but usually has some kind of wonder and magic in it. It would be interesting to poll D&D players on what edition they prefer and why prefer it to see what people come up with. Perhaps to stimulate a wider range of response than simply mechanical reasons, each individual would give a mechanical/design/game reason (e.g. I prefer Defenses to Saving Throws, or vice versa) and an emotive/aesthetic one. Or to put it another way, one answer for both the Left and Right brains. [/QUOTE]

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