Nostalgia Attack

[francisca]

And I want to play it again.

You can never go back. I started playing 1e again back around 1999, and while it has been great fun, and I continue to play and run 1e and B/X, it isn't quite the same. I've changed. My approach to the game is different. I play with different people.

It's still loads of fun, and the echoes (shadows?) of the old days are clearly present and felt, but it is a different experience today, treading over that old ground, where I stalked 20 years ago.

It's a good thing, IMO. I encourage you to dig the old game out and put it through it's paces, if anything, just to see how you interpret the rules today vs. then, with more life experience under your belt.

 

[diaglo]

You can never go back.

who's going back. time marches on and you walk with different people.

but that doesn't change the fact you still playing the same game.

diaglo "who is still playing OD&D the way he played it in the 70's, 80's and 90's" Ooi

 

[I'm A Banana]

Yeah, run an old school one or two and have fun and smile and be happy. Reliving the old days can be fun, once in a while.

 

[caudor]

I'm often hit with major nostalgia. All that is required is that I take a few moments to browse through my 1e and 2e stuff, and wham---good memories flood right back to me.

Some of the nostalgia comes not only from the game itself, but represents where I was at a certain point in my life. I have a copy of G-123 that is badly stained from Active-8 punch spill (from back when I was selling Amway in Alaska). And there it still sits, the same adventure that my group ran...defeating the giants in my warm basement many years ago.

Nostalgia is a good feelling.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Why is it "surprisingly fun"? It's what the hobby was built on. Why should it be surprising that it's fun? It's not like D&D created the industry that it did because it wasn't fun.

Touche.

 

[DanielSchenstrom]

Dude. You're making me feel old when you get nostalgic over 2nd ed. It ended just 6 years ago. (That's not that long ago is it? Please?)

I don't think I'll ever feel nostalgic for 2nd ed myself since I'm still playing it. (I started up a campaign in 3e as soon as it was out but the consensus in my group is that we prefer 2nd ed. So we take what we like from 3e and incorporate it into our 2nd ed games, just as we do with 1st ed material.)

I do get nostalgic over old campaigns, characters and adventures however and I know just how you're feeling. I just recently started compiling 2 old campaigns into chronicles, one that started in 1990 and ended in 1996 and the other that ran throughout 1993. It's great to revisit those memories and to reintroduce them to the players who were part of the games back in those days. (But I should have done it sooner, or kept better notes. It's hard to remember everything.)

 

[Henry]

One thing I did that really helped the Nostalgia blues, was to collect all my old character sheets in a ring binder. Every now and again I'll break them out, and look through them and remember fun times, good friends, fantastic gaming moments, and freakish strokes of luck. Then I'll put 'em away, pick up my game books and go on to make new friends, new moments, and new freakish streaks of luck.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Was it really only six years ago? It seems so much longer.

I really enjoyed 2e. I have yet to have as much fun gaming as I did then. Not that I don't still have fun, mind you. But some of the greatest gaming moments were had in 2e. And at heart, I'm a sucker for nostalgia.

Dude. You're making me feel old when you get nostalgic over 2nd ed. It ended just 6 years ago. (That's not that long ago is it? Please?)

 

[Jupp]

I do get nostalgic over old campaigns, characters and adventures however and I know just how you're feeling. I just recently started compiling 2 old campaigns into chronicles, one that started in 1990 and ended in 1996 and the other that ran throughout 1993. It's great to revisit those memories and to reintroduce them to the players who were part of the games back in those days. (But I should have done it sooner, or kept better notes. It's hard to remember everything.)

Same here. With the exception that some of us in our group still remember every bit of those past campaigns, its frightening. We can exactly recreate combat rounds of encounters that happend about 10 years ago. And we still laugh or marvel about them, even our DM doesnt remember that much. Call it chronical nostalgia

 

[francisca]

who's going back. time marches on and you walk with different people.

but that doesn't change the fact you still playing the same game.

diaglo "who is still playing OD&D the way he played it in the 70's, 80's and 90's" Ooi

and you have the same perspective as you did 30 years ago?

just askin'.