"Role" Call - What Brings You Here?

[Snarf Zagyg]

I'm here to post awkward, poorly-thought out jokes after really great posts like this one.

Me?

I'm just always lookin' for more rakes!

 

[Mad_Jack]

I'm here to post awkward, poorly-thought out jokes after really great posts like this one.

I'm apparently just shouting out into the vast emptiness of the internet...

 

[trappedslider]

I am here to support a community of people who share a hobby I love.

debating with strangers on the internet?

 

[Aeson]

I'm apparently just shouting out into the vast emptiness of the internet...

Keep it down. Some of us are trying to sleep.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Someone kept on shouting into the emptiness of the internet...

I'm apparently just shouting out into the vast emptiness of the internet...

Hello Jack.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Ale & whores. Plus some murder-hoboing.

Nah -- it' the siren's call of more gaming news from Morrus!

 

[Jahydin]

Honestly, it was to try and find out when and why D&D went from:

This:

To this:

I think I have a pretty good understanding now and I have since moved onto different games , but in the process got to like ENWorld, its users, and posting in general.

 

[Aeson]

Ale & whores. Plus some murder-hoboing.

Nah -- it' the siren's call of more gaming news from Morrus!

I was a little classier with mine.

I did mention going potty, so not much more classy.

 

[trappedslider]

Someone kept on shouting into the emptiness of the internet...

 

[Voadam]

Honestly, it was to try and find out when and why D&D went from:

This:
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As for the when this was the 80's. The hair is the tip off even if you were not there when this was new.

To this:
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I think I have a pretty good understanding now and I have since moved onto different games , but in the process got to like ENWorld, its users, and posting in general.

The lineup of races thing has been pretty standard D&D since 2000 D&D, although Palladium did it in the 80s too.

(Not sure what the blue guy is supposed to be, If he was shorter with bigger pointy ears I'd say drow or other elf with the new art style for drow being generally not straight black).

The style of clothes and art in general of that piece is a bit anime, so I'd say gaming in the '90s for the start of that aesthetic in certain RPGs, D&D starting to take that on in the '90s for Planescape and in the 2000s for core.

I'd say it is recognizable though going from 2e to that later piece

Palladium FRPG '83: