D&D 5E Planescape shows up in the wild. Tease from Chris Perkins.

[Stormonu]

Dude Goonies is better now than when I watched it as a kid. I did not love it then, I barely liked it. As an adult, it’s great.

I can't stand Goonies, or E.T. I had trouble getting through Stranger Things at the start. Mostly due to the kids talking over each other and such.

Willow, on the other hand, I think is a good movie. Haven't seen the series that follows, though.

 

[Parmandur]

I can't stand Goonies, or E.T. I had trouble getting through Stranger Things at the start. Mostly due to the kids talking over each other and such.

Willow, on the other hand, I think is a good movie. Haven't seen the series that follows, though.

Never seen the Goonies, should change that. Willow isn't a great movie, but I think it holds up pretty well having watched it recently.

 

[Stormonu]

I am continuously perplexed by nostalgia. Why on Earth would I want to return to a past decade!? The past is largely terrible!

Even just 10 years ago was worse than today, although the rate of change seems to have been stifled a bit lately.

You may not understand it, but I'd go back to 1983 and stay there if I could. One of the better years of my life.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's very baffling to me why some posters do this. I have a million better ways to spend my time than submitting dozens of posts in a thread over something I don't like. I would be like one or two posts to get the point across (if even that), and then find something more fun to do.

But in any case, once Phandelver is in stores next week, the marketing focus will be on this release, and I can't wait to see more previews! Hopefully we'll get more art and some more peeks into the bestiary.

So we should only post in threads about things we do like? Seems to be more reasonable to post about stuff that you care about and/or in which you have an interest, whether you are in favor of it or not. As I've said before, the result otherwise is a far less active community.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's really weird claim that a number of people have made over the last 10 years, and I've never seen a shred of actual support for it.

Indeed, on the precise contrary, I've seen a ton of evidence that a lot of players get in D&D "lore-first", rather than because they think the rules are cool or something. People don't become obsessed with Critical Role despite the lore - it's a big part of why they do. Even before that, novels and games and so on, often interest people in D&D settings because of the settings and the lore, not because of the D&D rules.

I don't think everyone does - but I don't think anyone has made any kind of logical or supportable case that "kids today" or "new players" don't like lore. I would continue to suggest the contrary, based on the people I've seen wanting to play D&D. It's about the same proportion as ever.

Then you'd think WotC would put a little more effort into the lore they publish.

 

[Micah Sweet]

You may not understand it, but I'd go back to 1983 and stay there if I could. One of the better years of my life.

I was 7. Not my ideal forever time.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

You may not understand it, but I'd go back to 1983 and stay there if I could. One of the better years of my life.

So here’s why I don’t get it.

It’s not like it would be like that again. Any given year wasnt great for whoever it was great for because it was objectively a good year. Ot was great fro them because of the factors that made up thier life in that fleeting moment lining up to a great year.

I mean, that and I just don’t really feel the actual emotion underpinning nostalgia as much as most folks seem to. That’s definitely part of it. I couldn’t tell ya any given year that was super good. My brain retains random bits of good and bad, and doesn’t let me decide which to remember.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I can't stand Goonies, or E.T. I had trouble getting through Stranger Things at the start. Mostly due to the kids talking over each other and such.

Willow, on the other hand, I think is a good movie. Haven't seen the series that follows, though.

Never liked ET, and I didn’t like Stranger Things near as much as I enjoyed reading IT, which is my closest comparison touchstone.

But goonies is good IMO. Well, if I’m in a mood where I can ignore the problematic stuff like racist and ableist caricatures.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I am continuously perplexed by nostalgia. Why on Earth would I want to return to a past decade!? The past is largely terrible!

Even just 10 years ago was worse than today, although the rate of change seems to have been stifled a bit lately.

Did you sleep through the Pandemic? The Shipocylpse? Greedflations? All the Wildfires Choking everyone earlier this year? The biggest war in Europe since WW2 in the Ukraine? The War between Saudi Arabia and Yemen? The fact that child Proverty exploded upwards in just a year or two by a massive amount?

So yeah, no it was better for most people, although not everyone 10 years ago, with some exceptions.

Just the tip of iceberg really, I suspect hating the time when they were born is driving the all the 80s nostalgia (and to a lesser extend 70s and 90s) abong Gen Zed and Millennials.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

The new covers do a good job of honouring the past from what I’ve seen…

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That’s certainly much closer to the feel of what it used to be and less Spiderwicky.