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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5012019" data-attributes="member: 4937">I believe the '80's where The Golden Age.My reasoning is based on the following:1) D&D had real mainstream reach, where as in the mainstream now it plays second fiddle to World of Warcraft.2) D&D's mainstream reach could be felt in the fact that it had a toy line, and a cartoon on a major network, and it could be purchased along side boardgames in from pretty much every toy retailer for K'Bee to Toys R Us.  Today, D&D doesn't even have a print magazine devoted to it.3) Everything that has happened since then has always been a revival of legendary content and fluff from that golden age.  There is 'Return to the Tomb of Horrors' or 'Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil'.  For any other 'golden age' you could name, there would be what?  When people talk about experiences in classic encounters, what could you name for anything outside of The Golden Age encounters that could be anything like a shared experience or for that matter 'classic'?  Nothing since then has been nearly as iconic.4) If you took a survey of the sort of people that hang out at EnWorld, I think you'd find a disproportionate number are of the age to have been forged in the '80's.</blockquote>