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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4589609" data-attributes="member: 41584">I had house rules back in 1st edition, and, frankly, I don't know a lot of people who *didn't* have house rules back then.&nbsp;Gary Gygax was a nice guy and all, from the time I met him, but I disagree strongly with many of his ideas, and I always have.&nbsp;Other ideas I like. It has nothing to do with Gary being old, or dead, or a nice guy, it has to do with my rabid irrational dislike of Vancian magic (to pick one example of something he liked out of a hat).&nbsp;If there had been an internet back in the late 70s, I imagine that there would have been thousands of D&amp;D players poo-pooing Gary's ideas as vigorously and vehemently as these people who don't enthusiastically love every single contribution Mike Mearls has made to the game.&nbsp;Since Rome, at least, every single generation has whined about how the current generation is ruder and more disrespectful than the one before it. The 'golden age' always seems to be in the viewers childhood, and every generation sets it for themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Set, post: 4589609, member: 41584"] I had house rules back in 1st edition, and, frankly, I don't know a lot of people who *didn't* have house rules back then. Gary Gygax was a nice guy and all, from the time I met him, but I disagree strongly with many of his ideas, and I always have. Other ideas I like. It has nothing to do with Gary being old, or dead, or a nice guy, it has to do with my rabid irrational dislike of Vancian magic (to pick one example of something he liked out of a hat). If there had been an internet back in the late 70s, I imagine that there would have been thousands of D&D players poo-pooing Gary's ideas as vigorously and vehemently as these people who don't enthusiastically love every single contribution Mike Mearls has made to the game. Since Rome, at least, every single generation has whined about how the current generation is ruder and more disrespectful than the one before it. The 'golden age' always seems to be in the viewers childhood, and every generation sets it for themselves. [/QUOTE]

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