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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8633737" data-attributes="member: 59082">That's kind of funny, at least in hindsight. I never experienced any of that, but I also didn't really range widely in terms of gaming in those years, and just played with a few high school friends - none of whom, if I remember correctly, even played 1E. So for them, 2E was D&amp;D.Good stuff. All of this reminds me of politics, and how much of it is perception, association, and imprinting. D&amp;D is to an individual whatever edition/version they first started playing with. Some adapt from that, some don't. Furthermore, it is hard to separate out the intangible influences--marketing, impressions, hearsay, reputation, label, etc--from the thing itself. People--as in politics--have a knee-jerk and instant reaction to an idea, depending upon what &quot;tribe&quot; they associate it coming from, regardless of what the actual thing itself is. This reminds me of when my 13-year old daughter shows me a TikTok video she thinks is funny, I am struck by two things: One, I feel out of touch with the references and associations of younger &quot;kids these days,&quot; and two, I can barely process the information - the format and editing is so weird and disjointed, at least to my almost-half-a-century-old brain. I feel like my 80-year old father when I try explaining to him how to use On Demand on his TV (no matter how many times I try to explain it to him, he just can't get it...the cup runneth overfull, I guess).Someone else mentioned 1E/2E for the 50th, and that makes sense to me - but really, 2E was more of a 1.5E, at least in my view of things. But even so, some will be upset about that, just as some were upset about 3.5. But reasons you and I have both stated, my speculation is that the newer cohort won't be as bothered.That said, one way I could see them screwing things up if they lean too hard into the &quot;We're older folks, but we're cool and hip and get you, youngsters!&quot; I tease my 13-year old daughter about such things because I like to see her roll her eyes and say, &quot;OK, Boomer&quot;, but she knows I do so jokingly, just as I know she knows that Boomers and Gen-Xers aren't synonymous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8633737, member: 59082"] That's kind of funny, at least in hindsight. I never experienced any of that, but I also didn't really range widely in terms of gaming in those years, and just played with a few high school friends - none of whom, if I remember correctly, even played 1E. So for them, 2E was D&D. Good stuff. All of this reminds me of politics, and how much of it is perception, association, and imprinting. D&D is to an individual whatever edition/version they first started playing with. Some adapt from that, some don't. Furthermore, it is hard to separate out the intangible influences--marketing, impressions, hearsay, reputation, label, etc--from the thing itself. People--as in politics--have a knee-jerk and instant reaction to an idea, depending upon what "tribe" they associate it coming from, regardless of what the actual thing itself is. This reminds me of when my 13-year old daughter shows me a TikTok video she thinks is funny, I am struck by two things: One, I feel out of touch with the references and associations of younger "kids these days," and two, I can barely process the information - the format and editing is so weird and disjointed, at least to my almost-half-a-century-old brain. I feel like my 80-year old father when I try explaining to him how to use On Demand on his TV (no matter how many times I try to explain it to him, he just can't get it...the cup runneth overfull, I guess). Someone else mentioned 1E/2E for the 50th, and that makes sense to me - but really, 2E was more of a 1.5E, at least in my view of things. But even so, some will be upset about that, just as some were upset about 3.5. But reasons you and I have both stated, my speculation is that the newer cohort won't be as bothered. That said, one way I could see them screwing things up if they lean too hard into the "We're older folks, but we're cool and hip and get you, youngsters!" I tease my 13-year old daughter about such things because I like to see her roll her eyes and say, "OK, Boomer", but she knows I do so jokingly, just as I know she knows that Boomers and Gen-Xers aren't synonymous. [/QUOTE]

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