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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Valiant" data-source="post: 3798548" data-attributes="member: 54792">This AD&D experiance=nastalgia arguement is completely and utterly false .  I have brought way too many people into AD&D over the last few years that experiance EXACTLY the same things as I experianced when I was introduced to the game way back in 1981.  How is such a thing possible you ask?  Simple.  I use the original PH and DMG, thus the rules and the setting are identical to what they were back then.  I also use the same dungeons, new ones like those originals (see EXPR line) or my own stuff which is the same. You see, AD&D is just a game.  It is a rule book, objectively existing (like Monopoly) it wasn't some magical mystical phantom.  This "D&D is a nastalgic phantom" arguement I've heard before (during the Edition Wars mostly), and its IMHO a load of horse poop (a lame attempt to convince people what they experianced back then can't be recreated today.   There is zero thats right ZERO truth to it, don't buy that can of spam.  For example, Just because you liked Mozart when you were 17 doesn't mean that your liking Mozart today is because its nastalgic (reminding you of how great it was when you were 17), nor does it mean that people just introduced to Mozart for the first time like it to experiance some time period.  Sure, nastalgia exists for AD&D, but no more and no less then for any other game we played, or any other activity we did.   AD&D is "classic" it transends time periods (just like Mozart). It just so happens that it was written around the same time you got into the game.  Hopefully, the AD&D game (the books themselves) will continue into the future (if only as a PDF or in a clone form like OSRIC), and it will be available to play. Anyhow, the Nastalgic arguement presented here by Crothain is dead wrong (as a generality).  Perhaps its just his personal experiance.  Maybe he never liked the original AD&D or OD&D in the first place...I don't know.  But anyone reading this should completely and utterly erase this "AD&D=Nastalgia" notion from your mind from this point on, because its simply and completely not true.</blockquote>

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