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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5655207" data-attributes="member: 40177">To be a bit more serious, I'm a young(er) gamer - born in 1983, been gaming since around 1988 or so.  Second generation gamer, even!  Was introduced by my dad.I'm mostly nostalgic for how my friends and I approached the games we played - completely unconcerned with the mechanics or success.  We played short-sighted gnome archers because we thought they were cool character concepts.  I insisted my fighter fought with a longsword and wore leather armour not because it was in any way mechanically sound (it was not), but because I liked the way it LOOKED - to hell with my AC of 7!I'm nostalgic for days when every player I played with was also a part-time GM.  I'm nostalgic for there being so many TSR-released D&D products that I could pick and choose which ones I wanted to buy based entirely on my interests, and not be expected to include someone else's collection into my game simply because it was produced by TSR (though we usually did just that).I'm nostalgic for days when every player knew instinctively what was "Cheesy", and all of my players were on the same page about how far they could go with "optimization".  Since 3e, there has always been this sort of sliding scale of optimization which has always resulted in a rather wide imbalance between the weakest PC and the strongest PC, and I miss the days when that didn't happen.I'm nostalgic for the days when my RPG books had information about real-world history in them.  They're probably the reason I wound up getting a history degree.  And yet, I still don't blame them for my wasted college years.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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