Oofta
Legend
For me D&D is and always has been pretty much a question of what happens around the game table. The jokes we crack, the bad voices, the groans and cheers when the DM rolls a 20 or one of the players does.
That, for me, hasn't changed. I may disagree with some of the ... shall we say ... sanitizing of the game from time to time. But I've also seen growth. I remember playing a public game a few years back and one of the mods included the mention that one of the people we could talk to was a lesbian couple. It was just a blink-and-you-miss-it thing but we had a guy who was upset because it was supposed to be a family friendly game.
So I think it's generally a good thing if we (using that broadly) have grown and are generally more accepting. The feel of the game has, and will continue, to change. But it's a big tent. I hope to find my own particular corner of that tent and continue to explore new adventures for years to come. Likely that will happen with whatever version of D&D is current, because I haven't told all of the stories I can think of, or played all the PCs I'd like to play yet. I don't think I ever will.
That, for me, hasn't changed. I may disagree with some of the ... shall we say ... sanitizing of the game from time to time. But I've also seen growth. I remember playing a public game a few years back and one of the mods included the mention that one of the people we could talk to was a lesbian couple. It was just a blink-and-you-miss-it thing but we had a guy who was upset because it was supposed to be a family friendly game.
So I think it's generally a good thing if we (using that broadly) have grown and are generally more accepting. The feel of the game has, and will continue, to change. But it's a big tent. I hope to find my own particular corner of that tent and continue to explore new adventures for years to come. Likely that will happen with whatever version of D&D is current, because I haven't told all of the stories I can think of, or played all the PCs I'd like to play yet. I don't think I ever will.
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