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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7642548" data-attributes="member: 996">Y'know, Zard, the thread title should've been &quot;The Littlest Grognard,&quot; would've sounded like the world's worst Rankin/Bass animated special.IDK if /I/ can really claim grognard status by attitude.&nbsp; I'm not enamored of the OSR (I'll dust off an old game rather than get into a clone).&nbsp; I think I just played too much not-D&amp;D in the 80s to be properly grognardly. (I like to think I've got the old-man bitterness &amp; cynicism down pat, though.)I always felt like I was playing catch-up with D&amp;D, even having started in '80, I collected all the Dragon Magazines back to, I think it was 19, trying to get a feel for what I'd missed.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; &nbsp; Now, 5 or 6 years seems like nuth'n.And, yeah, the older gamers back then were wargamers, and thought we kids playing wargames at 1 figure = 1 soldier, and speaking in first person about being elves and casting sleep were just silly (to put it politely), and there was a contingent of 0e/Arduin fans who looked down on A&amp;D, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7642548, member: 996"] Y'know, Zard, the thread title should've been "The Littlest Grognard," would've sounded like the world's worst Rankin/Bass animated special. IDK if /I/ can really claim grognard status by attitude. I'm not enamored of the OSR (I'll dust off an old game rather than get into a clone). I think I just played too much not-D&D in the 80s to be properly grognardly. (I like to think I've got the old-man bitterness & cynicism down pat, though.) I always felt like I was playing catch-up with D&D, even having started in '80, I collected all the Dragon Magazines back to, I think it was 19, trying to get a feel for what I'd missed. ;) Now, 5 or 6 years seems like nuth'n. And, yeah, the older gamers back then were wargamers, and thought we kids playing wargames at 1 figure = 1 soldier, and speaking in first person about being elves and casting sleep were just silly (to put it politely), and there was a contingent of 0e/Arduin fans who looked down on A&D, too. [/QUOTE]

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