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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5012035" data-attributes="member: 59082">These are excellent points, the third being something that has irked me for sometime, not only in RPGs but fantasy/scifi movies with the constant remakes (do you know they're remaking Logan's Run and Excalibur? Excalibur?! That was a perfect movie as it was<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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). "Revivalitis" in D&D seemed much alive in the late 90s when TSR was fading and WotC was trying to resuscitate it, as well as in the mid-2000s when 3E was 3Edifying everything. I have a feeling that we're not going to see as much of it with 4E. Well, we'll see the 4E treatment of all of the core stuff, but my guess is that we're not going to see a lot of official remakes of old stuff. Or at least I hope not.I have to say that WotC's choice of Dark Sun as the next campaign setting--while not totally displeasing to me--seems to support your perspective. I was hoping that they were going to come out with something new, but it looks like we'll have to wait until 2011 or 2012.But the thing I find a bit bothersome about Revivalitis is that it speaks of creative laziness coupled with economical cowardice. I was one of the rare geeks who didn't like the new Star Trek movie; I thought the franchise peaked with Wrath of Khan (specifically with Ricardo Montalban quoting Moby Dick) and had a few nice plateaus afterwards (movies 4, 6, and 8, and some of the Next Generation), but it was a gradual downward spiral. Rinsing and squeezing one more time still leaves you with the same outworn, overused piece of rubber (or whatever sponges are made of). Sometimes you just need a new sponge, and I applaud James Cameron for trying to do just this with Avatar, even if some of the dialogue in previews ("This is going to be fun!") have left me shaking in the corner.No, I will not <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. Why? Because I'm looking for discussion, not answers. "Golden Age" has a lot of connotations but we all have a general sense of what it means. When things were most glorious, usually back then.Can you imagine? Hundreds of thousands of D&D books burnt to a crisp in the boiler room at Random House. Oh, the shame, the shame.</blockquote>

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