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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 3798869" data-attributes="member: 3608">Even back when I was a 3e advocate, I'd suggest that people approach it as a new game.For myself, I am looking at 4e as being a new game.It used to bother me though that the old game was automatically dismissed simply because it bore the same brand name as the new game. Must be obsolete then, right? OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, & oD&D available as legal PDFs, however, have mitigated that.For me, there's no "switching". I can't imagine not playing a variety of games.Right. Except that my group has had a blast with our recent classic Traveller & classic D&D campaigns.Well, yeah. There's a certain amount of truth to that. Arguably the experience I have playing the classic games today is better than the experience I had then.Just because the experience won't be 100% exactly the same, however, shouldn't keep anyone from having fun with the old games today. Not only can they be equally or even more fun today, the nostalgia can be icing on the cake. Chasing the phantom doesn't mean that you won't catch anything. Catching "old man Smithers" can be more fun that catching an actual phantom. (^_^)I could also argue that the difference between the AD&D I might play in 2007 v. the AD&D I played in 1995 wouldn't be greater than the difference between the AD&D I played in 1995 v. 1985. So, if the phantom is "the AD&D I played between 1985 & 1995", I don't think it's a phantom at all.</blockquote>

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