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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4853926" data-attributes="member: 22779">The one thing that I do very much miss from the 1e (and possibly early 2e days) is how the writers rarely took the game too seriously.  There were all sorts of jokes and whatnot going on in just about every published book or module.  From the cartoons in the 1e DMG (One false step and the familiar gets it!) to the pictures in the Monster Manual (the blank pic for the invisible stalker always made me giggle) to all sorts of whacky weirdness like Earthshaker (Communist gnomes driving a mountain sized robot).  That's one thing that I do think is missing from later era D&D is a willingness to laugh at ourselves.  Reading those old books, I always got the sense that the writers were very much tongue in cheek almost all the time.I miss the goofy.</blockquote>