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The Great D&D Schism: The End of an age and the scattering of gamers
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<blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 6249823" data-attributes="member: 40398"><p>I agree with Ahnehnoi<span style="color: #3e3e3e">s that your anecdotes are sad, but I don't think D&Ders have ever lived in a golden age of communal understanding. Except maybe at the very beginning, when Gygax and Arneson were DMing the very first campaigns and making things up as they went. Actually, scratch that, considering the differences that developed between the two, I doubt even they were ever on the same page.</span></p><p><span style="color: #3e3e3e"></span></p><p><span style="color: #3e3e3e">So frankly, all this talk of golden ages and great schisms sounds very melodramatic to me. I think that we are in a transition between Ages; but it's not from a golden age of communal bliss to a dark age of schisms. It's the transition between the first age of our hobby, when the first of our hobbyists are still alive and gaming, to an age when most of us have seen and played multiple incarnations of the game, and nobody can claim comprehensive knowledge of the hobby. And those of us who've played multiple editions have generally realized that there was never a possibility of D&Ders 'being on the same page,' and that no edition will ever achieve that utopian state.</span></p><p><span style="color: #3e3e3e"></span></p><p><span style="color: #3e3e3e">Because the simple fact is that tastes vary too widely to achieve anything resembling mutual game values, even within D&D, and the only reason that the hobby may have once resembled a collective soul is because it was a small hobby, with a very few DMs making the calls.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tequila Sunrise, post: 6249823, member: 40398"] I agree with Ahnehnoi[COLOR=#3e3e3e]s that your anecdotes are sad, but I don't think D&Ders have ever lived in a golden age of communal understanding. Except maybe at the very beginning, when Gygax and Arneson were DMing the very first campaigns and making things up as they went. Actually, scratch that, considering the differences that developed between the two, I doubt even they were ever on the same page. So frankly, all this talk of golden ages and great schisms sounds very melodramatic to me. I think that we are in a transition between Ages; but it's not from a golden age of communal bliss to a dark age of schisms. It's the transition between the first age of our hobby, when the first of our hobbyists are still alive and gaming, to an age when most of us have seen and played multiple incarnations of the game, and nobody can claim comprehensive knowledge of the hobby. And those of us who've played multiple editions have generally realized that there was never a possibility of D&Ders 'being on the same page,' and that no edition will ever achieve that utopian state. Because the simple fact is that tastes vary too widely to achieve anything resembling mutual game values, even within D&D, and the only reason that the hobby may have once resembled a collective soul is because it was a small hobby, with a very few DMs making the calls.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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