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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Murrell" data-source="post: 8321862" data-attributes="member: 6985909">I am as old as D&D, and have been playing for 36 years. My first ever game was 1st ed. AD&D and for a long time 2nd ed. was my preferred version of the game, though now it is 5E. I had a reasonable affection for the real TSR, and was saddened when it went under and was bought out by a CCG company (as I saw WotC at the time). I also viewed Gary Gygax as kind of a lesser Stan Lee, someone important to the hobby who when you looked into him wasn't quite the myth built up around him. The thing is the real TSR is dead and buried, and Ernie is not the Gygax that ever mattered, even if he does share the same name. When I heard about this new reincarnated TSR, it was with more skepticism than interest, especially when I found out he was behind the Kickstarter my oldest RPG friend had been moaning about for over half a decade.I guess that I am possibly one of those Ernie is meant to be speaking for age wise, though I am in my mid forties so maybe I am too young. Thing is he really doesn't and I find his attitude deeply annoying, especially since I have been a fan of the real TSR longer than I have of WotC. Not only do I not want to be, in age association, to be tarred with the same brush as his opinions, I also find his attitude as a taint on the memory of the TSR I used to be a fan of. As I said at the beginning, I am as old as D&D, we came into the world at the same time. I am definitely not the same person as I was in 1974, nor am I the same person as I was when I started playing D&D ten years later, my opinions have changed since the time WotC bought D&D, not only about gaming but how the world is and should be. If my attitudes and opinions have changed and matured, why would the hobby I love or even the game which brought me into the hobby not do the same? The idea that D&D or the hobby should have been static for the last 4 plus decades, is ridiculous. To survive it had to change and adapt to those who came into the hobby, especially those who are far younger than the game they are now playing. I am confident that this new false TSR will not survive and will not be fondly remembered. In some ways I am slightly saddened by that, not because of it is, but what it could have been.</blockquote>

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