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<blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 5893291" data-attributes="member: 4826">@TransbotYou seem to assume that nostalgia appeals only to an extant user base. Nostalgia often has personal associations for people but plenty of people are nostalgic for things with which they have no personal association. Therefore, nostalgia does not necessarily only appeal to 'the base'.In order for 'feeling like D&amp;D' to mean something it must address some of what 'the base' identifies as D&amp;D. To some, any attempt to create a game that does this will be to fall into the trap of playing on nostalgia.We either abandon the idea that a new edition of D&amp;D should feel like anything that came before it or we choose a future edition of D&amp;D that encompasses something familiar to those of us who have experienced a previous edition. If we choose the latter, it does not necessarily follow that we have done so for reasons of nostalgia. Indeed, whichever choice we make, we will all still have recourse to nostalgia.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ranes, post: 5893291, member: 4826"] @Transbot You seem to assume that nostalgia appeals only to an extant user base. Nostalgia often has personal associations for people but plenty of people are nostalgic for things with which they have no personal association. Therefore, nostalgia does not necessarily only appeal to 'the base'. In order for 'feeling like D&D' to mean something it must address some of what 'the base' identifies as D&D. To some, any attempt to create a game that does this will be to fall into the trap of playing on nostalgia. We either abandon the idea that a new edition of D&D should feel like anything that came before it or we choose a future edition of D&D that encompasses something familiar to those of us who have experienced a previous edition. If we choose the latter, it does not necessarily follow that we have done so for reasons of nostalgia. Indeed, whichever choice we make, we will all still have recourse to nostalgia. [/QUOTE]

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