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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5427312" data-attributes="member: 2072">The game has changed... because we have changed. Yes and no.Some games are eternal. Once you know poker, you can always play poker. Movies, sadly, are not eternal. The original "Psycho" was a masterpiece. The remake, predictably, was not. And then there are novels; some are original and eternal, some are made into movies, and some are inspired by movies.D&D floats around in the middle of those metaphors, like glitter in a snow globe. The idea is eternal - knights, dragons, maidens in distress, monsters, treasure. The idea is remade time and time again, seeming at times like a novel based on a movie that the author never actually saw but only heard about secondhand.Everyone's a critic. Thus everyone sees the same movie yet takes something unique away from the experience. I didn't play every edition of D&D. I skipped 2e as it seemed to take elements away from the game I enjoyed. The same applies to 4e. More about my gaming history <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5418781-post.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>Yes, I grew up. I've been playing D&D in one form or another for over thirty years. I am not a lost boy (despite what my wife might say about my degree of maturity). This does not diminish my enjoyment of sharing a world of my design within a common framework accessible to others. It simply changes the medium.People play Scrabble in heated face-to-face competitions. People play Scrabble with complete strangers using an app on their iPads. It's the same game. The expectation of what one will get from the game; challenge, frustration, enjoyment, and exhilaration are the same. To enjoy Scrabble face-to-face requires coordinated schedules, a communal meeting place, and a suitable environment to enjoy the game. To enjoy Scrabble via an iPad app, one can be waiting in line for one's turn at the ATM.This is where I see D&D heading - real imaginations using a new medium. Computer programs, iPad apps, or holographic augmented-reality simulations; the root of the game remains the same.But then again I may be biased, as I have not played a face-to-face game in over sixteen years.</blockquote>

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