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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 4876312" data-attributes="member: 34865">The ads.No, seriously.I like going back and reading the ads.  The smaller, the better.Why?  Nostalgia*, really.  They remind me of a time when the RPG industry wasn't so much an INDUSTRY.  Yes, yes, blah blah blah nobody did it to be altruistic, nobody gave stuff away back then, the good old days weren't always so good, but whatever.I like reading through the old ads, watching people put their best foot forward - not just an OGL or d20 book of this-or-that, but honestly and truly trying to build the better mousetrap, once and for all.I mean, yeah, nobody came out with the D&D slayer that unseated TSR - but everyone who could come up with a print run and thought they had a chance to do so gave it a crack.  That's inspiring.Oh, and all of the Gardner Fox stories, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />*=I mean nostalgia nostalgia, not what some folks mistake for nostalgia.</blockquote>