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<blockquote data-quote="Monayuris" data-source="post: 7634084" data-attributes="member: 6859536"><p>I was playing D&D back in the '80s. I started with the Red Box (Mentzer version) then moved on to AD&D with my friends. The thing was, I was 10 when I started (and yes, we did play in my best friend's basement and yes, I did bicycle home afterwards... no demogorgons though... lol).</p><p></p><p>The interesting thing is that I have come to revisit the old games from that era and now, as an adult I am running these games. It has been kind of a revelation as I realized that as a kid I probably wasn't playing the same game as I'm playing now. We glossed over a lot of things back then that on reading now I understand a whole lot better. </p><p></p><p>One example is that, as a kid, I didn't understand the whole weapon bonus vs AC thing (mainly because then I didn't understand that AC was an actual fixed value that represents a specific combination of armor and shield). We probably didn't use a whole lot of other stuff from AD&D as well (we probably more played Basic with AD&D classes).</p><p></p><p></p><p>It was a retro-clone that actually pointed me back to the OSR games. I then started digging back into the older editions and started finding that after reading the rules as they were written, I found that I actually liked what I read. </p><p></p><p>My rediscovery of old school gaming has revitalized my D&D gaming, as an adult.</p><p></p><p>Although I mainly stick to the retro-clones for the actual rules, I use my copy of B/X for dungeon design and reference... for all intents and purposes I play B/X but with ascending AC and to hit bonuses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Monayuris, post: 7634084, member: 6859536"] I was playing D&D back in the '80s. I started with the Red Box (Mentzer version) then moved on to AD&D with my friends. The thing was, I was 10 when I started (and yes, we did play in my best friend's basement and yes, I did bicycle home afterwards... no demogorgons though... lol). The interesting thing is that I have come to revisit the old games from that era and now, as an adult I am running these games. It has been kind of a revelation as I realized that as a kid I probably wasn't playing the same game as I'm playing now. We glossed over a lot of things back then that on reading now I understand a whole lot better. One example is that, as a kid, I didn't understand the whole weapon bonus vs AC thing (mainly because then I didn't understand that AC was an actual fixed value that represents a specific combination of armor and shield). We probably didn't use a whole lot of other stuff from AD&D as well (we probably more played Basic with AD&D classes). It was a retro-clone that actually pointed me back to the OSR games. I then started digging back into the older editions and started finding that after reading the rules as they were written, I found that I actually liked what I read. My rediscovery of old school gaming has revitalized my D&D gaming, as an adult. Although I mainly stick to the retro-clones for the actual rules, I use my copy of B/X for dungeon design and reference... for all intents and purposes I play B/X but with ascending AC and to hit bonuses. [/QUOTE]
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