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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8280623" data-attributes="member: 7025997"><p>So I think I'm the author of the original post the OP is referring to, and I'd like to apologize.</p><p></p><p>I'm an almost-grognard (played in the late 80s...you have to have played in the 70s from what I understand), started playing 5e after a long hiatus and my prior experience was with 1e video games (THE MONSTERS REJOICE, FOR THE PARTY HAS BEEN DESTROYED!) and OD&D. I was rather amused that I could get back <em>all my hitpoints</em> after less than a full day's rest and that spectres drained my maximum hitpoints temporarily instead of <em>permanently draining two levels</em>. But, on reflection, a lot of these things make the hobby more easy to enter. You can always play Dungeon Crawl Classics. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>As for the candy-colored tieflings...hey, my favorite 1e mod was Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. I'm not a genre purist. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I wasn't trying to pick on grognards. I'm actually pretty conservative in the <em>non</em>political sense...I usually respect the progenitors of the field, enjoy tracing developments over time, and like reading old editions of Dragon and tracing back the oddities of the game to its wargaming roots. Without Gygax, no Zeb Cook. Without Zeb Cook, no Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, or Skip Williams. Without those guys, no 4e, and without 4e, no 5e. We are, all of us, nothing more than links in a long chain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8280623, member: 7025997"] So I think I'm the author of the original post the OP is referring to, and I'd like to apologize. I'm an almost-grognard (played in the late 80s...you have to have played in the 70s from what I understand), started playing 5e after a long hiatus and my prior experience was with 1e video games (THE MONSTERS REJOICE, FOR THE PARTY HAS BEEN DESTROYED!) and OD&D. I was rather amused that I could get back [I]all my hitpoints[/I] after less than a full day's rest and that spectres drained my maximum hitpoints temporarily instead of [I]permanently draining two levels[/I]. But, on reflection, a lot of these things make the hobby more easy to enter. You can always play Dungeon Crawl Classics. ;) As for the candy-colored tieflings...hey, my favorite 1e mod was Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. I'm not a genre purist. ;) I wasn't trying to pick on grognards. I'm actually pretty conservative in the [I]non[/I]political sense...I usually respect the progenitors of the field, enjoy tracing developments over time, and like reading old editions of Dragon and tracing back the oddities of the game to its wargaming roots. Without Gygax, no Zeb Cook. Without Zeb Cook, no Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, or Skip Williams. Without those guys, no 4e, and without 4e, no 5e. We are, all of us, nothing more than links in a long chain. [/QUOTE]
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