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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2265922" data-attributes="member: 6957">[Academician Prokhor Zakharov] The internet is not an information superhighway! It is a communications highway, and one with a large noise to signal ratio.[/Academician Prokhor Zakharov]Sorry, been playing Alpha Centauri again...For me flavor is better defined by the setting material than the adventures, but adventures help define the setting. But it is interesting that the argument seems to have shifted, even from the original poster. In a formal debate that would be called 'losing'. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />In my estimation there are better adventures now than during the 'classic' period. I do not purchase many, but I didn't then either. I do not think that D&D is 'cutting its own throat', and unlike TSR in its later days WotC shows signs of listening to their customers. And yes, customers like crunch. I can find you reviews of The Iron Kingdoms World Guide where people complain that there is no crunch, only fluff. (Wonderful fluff in my estimation!) There are adventures that interest me that TSR would never have produced.In some ways we are comparing old time radio shows to television, when the listener (or DM) has to provide his own mental image he becomes attached to it and has warm feelings. Television (3.x) provides more of the actual image, so the DM may not feel as attached to the final product. (Mix those metaphors! Go for it Grump! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) New stuff just does not have the resevoir of nostalgia that the older stuff has built up. Anyway, I seem to be losing coherence, so it is likely time for me to take a nap...The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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