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<blockquote data-quote="francisca" data-source="post: 8984969" data-attributes="member: 9734"><p>Started around 1980, though I had been hanging around my older cousins' basement, watching them play a lot in the late 70s. I have the same reaction as you do, fairly often. I also have the "you're full of it, you weren't playing back then" or "playing the goldbox games from SSI in your basement, isn't the same as playing face to face D&D/AD&D in the late 70's and early 80s" reaction, in addition.</p><p></p><p>Anecdotal, so grab a grain of salt: There were a LOT of different styles of play back in the day. In my own experience, about half the people I knew who played back then, played more or less like I did (let's say within one standard deviation....maybe they had some different houserules, but their game was very much "D&D/AD&D" as I understood it). The other half: a handful of "to the letter zealots" and the rest were "what the hell game is that??", because it was so different from my own experiences. Not judging, just trying to illustrate the point that anybody who "one true ways" about back in the day is probably full of crap.</p><p></p><p>And going back to the original post: I don't think I ever played in a randomly generated on-the-fly dungeon until well into the 2000s, when that was the flavor of the week amongst the OSR crowd on Google Plus. Myself and others I knew always put the time in, drawing maps, and stocking the dungeon.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Holy crap, I just realized my account here is 20+ years old..... git off muh lawn, you d**n kids!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="francisca, post: 8984969, member: 9734"] Started around 1980, though I had been hanging around my older cousins' basement, watching them play a lot in the late 70s. I have the same reaction as you do, fairly often. I also have the "you're full of it, you weren't playing back then" or "playing the goldbox games from SSI in your basement, isn't the same as playing face to face D&D/AD&D in the late 70's and early 80s" reaction, in addition. Anecdotal, so grab a grain of salt: There were a LOT of different styles of play back in the day. In my own experience, about half the people I knew who played back then, played more or less like I did (let's say within one standard deviation....maybe they had some different houserules, but their game was very much "D&D/AD&D" as I understood it). The other half: a handful of "to the letter zealots" and the rest were "what the hell game is that??", because it was so different from my own experiences. Not judging, just trying to illustrate the point that anybody who "one true ways" about back in the day is probably full of crap. And going back to the original post: I don't think I ever played in a randomly generated on-the-fly dungeon until well into the 2000s, when that was the flavor of the week amongst the OSR crowd on Google Plus. Myself and others I knew always put the time in, drawing maps, and stocking the dungeon. EDIT: Holy crap, I just realized my account here is 20+ years old..... git off muh lawn, you d**n kids! [/QUOTE]
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