Nostalgia Attack

[diaglo]

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

just askin'.

i'm easily thrice the man i was then.

diaglo "my doctor tells me i need to lose some weight" Ooi

 

[DanielSchenstrom]

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

I think that may be it. it might be easier for those that experience it as players to remember than those just telling what happens and keeping track of rules and rolls.

 

[J. A. Garlock]

You can never go back. I play with different people.

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I think the two are related don't you? What do you mean you can never go back? Just go to Dragonsfoot if you think it's impossible. I like AD&D more than 3E, and it's not because of nostalgic reasons. I'ts a better game in my opinion. Is chess out dated? Should we only play the NEWEST games? It's funny the way some people are convinced that everything HAS to get better with each new revamp, not always so. One day, old school will make a comeback, and there will be a gaming renaissance.

 

[der_kluge]

I never played 2e but I have nostalgia for it anyways, having gone back and found just how well written and simply fun to read some of the more fluffy 2e material was.

Whoa, my head just exploded.

You play Planescape, and in fact even maintain a Planescape fansite, and yet you've never played 2nd edition?

That's just freakish, man.

 

[der_kluge]

I don't have much nostalgia for older stuff. My first ever D&D game was basic, and that was in 5th grade. I didn't play again until I was a sophomore, and that was 1e. By the time I'd bought my own books, they were 2e books, and my first stint as DM was 2nd edition.

I enjoyed those games for what they are, but I wouldn't play any of them again just for nostalgia's sake. For as much as I enjoyed 2nd edition, it had some horrible flaws in it that I felt like were fixed in 3rd edition. That doesn't make 3rd edition all that great either. I think it has some problems of its own. I'm playing C&C now.

 

[Ethernaut]

I have tons of nostalgia for the old Basic Set and original AD&D books/modules. Not because I played them all that much (a dozen times, tops?), rather because they were my introduction to the hobby. I love the old art and the atmosphere that it evokes. It's gotta be nostalgia, because there is some seriously great art in many of the profucts coming out these days. Yet, I find myself wanting to create a campaign that evokes that same kind of "Keep on the Borderlands" or "Village of Homlet" feel to it.

Of course, my play tastes have totally changed. My group moved onto MERP, Rolemaster, Gurps, Warhammer, and James Bond shortly after we starting playing together in highschool. My first real D&D campaign was *many* years later, just before 3e came out, and I never liked the rules much. 3e was a huge step toward reconciling the way I like to play now with my fondness for a genre that D&D practially owns. My first 3e campaign that I played in was wonderful and I now find I have plenty of nostalgia for it (and it was only few years ago).

But my dream is to be able to run a game that evokes that old nostalgia using a rule-set that I'm comfortable with as a GM. I can play most anything, but I like my rules to be *just right* before I'll run a game. My current systems of choice (Gurps, Buffy, Risus) are great for what they do, but I feel I need something a little more D20ish for that old-style campaign that I have in mind. I'm currently messing around with Grim Tales and True 20 and think think perhaps I'm getting close to what I need.

 

[Dragonhelm]

One day, old school will make a comeback, and there will be a gaming renaissance.

I think it is making a comeback big time these days. Between C&C, Hackmaster, the old-style modules by Goodman Games, and Necromancer Games ("Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel" - there's a good amount of it out there.

They know that there are people out there who are looking for something nostalgic. Each one of them has a different way of approaching this. Hackmaster is a humorous rendition, Goodman and Necromancer are using the current rules set but shaping their products to be more "old school", and C&C sort of meets everyone in the middle.

While there is this desire on many peoples' parts to be more nostalgic, there are multiple ways of doing it. You may go back and play with old rules and old modules. You might decide to play an old module, but update it to the current rules. You might have some house rules that give more of a nostalgic feel, or perhaps you pull out an old Greyhawk (example) boxed set and use only that for your source material on the setting.

So in a way, nostalgia can lead to new ways of doing things, and different ways of having fun.

 

[J. A. Garlock]

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So in a way, nostalgia can lead to new ways of doing things, and different ways of having fun.

Nicely put.

 

[Shemeska]

Whoa, my head just exploded.

You play Planescape, and in fact even maintain a Planescape fansite, and yet you've never played 2nd edition?

That's just freakish, man.

Never once played it. I almost played a 1e game back when I was 5, but we never got through character creation (The DMs mom called and he had to go home). Never actually played till 3e, but then went back and looked into the 2e stuff and fell in love, but still have never actually played with 2e rules.

Yes, I suppose that's odd considering all the stuff I've done on Planewalker etc.

 

[Zappo]

I've found that - for me - actually playing older D&D editions is a good way to kill off nostalgia before character generation is even over. Great games, but I wouldn't go back to them.

Whoa, my head just exploded.

You play Planescape, and in fact even maintain a Planescape fansite, and yet you've never played 2nd edition?

That's just freakish, man.

No, the freakish bit is that he's played Planescape for half as long as me, and is twice as good at it.

I'll need to eat his brain, too.