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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4872923" data-attributes="member: 22779">Heh, somehow I think these two quotes just belong together.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The thing I miss the most from the 1e era ... err... scratch that.  There are two things I miss from that time.First, I miss the humour.  I miss those cartoons in the DMG and the various jokes and whatnot that were sprinkled through other books (I remember fondly finding those lines in the spellbook in the Unearthed Arcana that said something to the effect of "Help I'm trapped... Get me out!") and the various silly and almost surreal magic items that you could find.D&D really does take itself too seriously sometimes.The second thing I miss is the strong voice of the writer.  Having started reading a lot of RPG's of late, that is something I'm really noticing.  RPG's, particularly the smaller ones, have a real voice behind the writing of the rule books.  You can picture the guy writing the Savage Worlds books - he's likely got a cigar burning beside his typewriter and a beer on the other side.  <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=":)" />3e books, by and large, have no voice.  4e, particularly the PHB as well is very stale.  The DMG is much better, as it's sprinkled with lots of sidebars where you really get a chance to hear a voice, but, even then, it's still very understated, and not very conversational.I realize that it makes them better rule books, but, it also makes them a heck of a lot more boring to read.</blockquote>

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