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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 1807151" data-attributes="member: 16574">Come over to the Dark Side (1E AD&D). You know you want to <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> As for how hard it is to find 1E players: although not many active 'lifestyle gamers' (i.e. the kind of folks who post on message-boards, or are likely to answer ads in game-stores) still play 1E, and tend to look down on those of us who do, among inactive/former gamers 1E is still by far the most widely recognized and popular version of the game, because a LOT of people played it, or at least remember others playing it, from back in the 80s when they were kids and teenagers, and D&D's 'fad years' (roughly 81-85) fall squarely in the middle of the current 'nostalgia wave' of folks in their upper 20s-30s (look around -- 80s nostalgia is big, and getting bigger as people who grew up in the 80s are getting older, entering 'true adulthood' with careers and families of their own). You're much more likely to convince such people to play 1E by framing it as a nostalgia trip than to convince them to play some slicked-up and geekified "New Coke" version framed un-ironically. Sure, it'll require a little proactive effort and convincing, you won't be able to just post an ad on a game-store bulletin board and wait for responses (since, surprisingly enough, people who haven't played an rpg since 1986 don't tend to spend a lot of time in game stores (unless perhaps they're there buying HeroClix or Yu-Gi-Oh cards for their kids...)), but it'll be worth the effort. And, honestly, wouldn't you rather play with a bunch of casual non-gamer friends than some random strangers with questionable hygiene and odious personal habits who happened to answer your game-store ad?</blockquote>

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