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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4446902" data-attributes="member: 32740">I also hang around a bit at Dragonsfoot and I'd say you're almost completely correct. The one thing I'd add is that not only do they have their favorite version - they want it etched in stone. They refuse to allow 3rd Edition to even be CALLED 3rd Edition (and even now that there's a 4th Edition they still can be rabidly isolationist). Mention of 3E is generally only tolerated if you refer to it - literally - as, "The Edition That Shall Not Be Named," or use the acronym TETSNBN. Now they may have instituted that rule because at the time of the advent of 3E they wanted to keep people from clogging their forums with fanboys and disruptions regarding an edition they had no interest in - but it can get downtright rudely intolerant and myopic. They want not even the suggestion that anything after 2nd Edition has anything in it worth talking about. Not always, but it's certainly startling to see the occasional vehemence with which they defy anything published after 1999. People just naturally think of D&D in terms of how they first learned to play it. I started with Basic D&D and moved immediately to 1E such that I barely remember Basic. I remember 1E - but 1E as it was run by the DM's I played under, who frequently did NOT use the rules as written. It is the house rules by which they ran the 1E game that frame what D&D is to me. I'd LIKE to play 4E if for no other reason than because I don't care to judge it without knowing firsthand how it actually plays. But at this point I have no desire to run it - OR 3E EITHER - and and am working on starting a house-ruled 1E campaign that more closely encompasses how _I_ think of D&D.</blockquote>

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