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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2032124" data-attributes="member: 463">I got that warm tingly feeling from 1e, 2e killed it very rapidly (eg 1e Lankhmar was cool, 2e was poorly researched garbage).&nbsp; After several years away I bought a few WoTC 2e Return To products like 'Slavers' and 'Return to White Plume Mountain' and found that all the magic had been dissected out of them.&nbsp; &amp; Despite its technical proficiency, 3e has the same problem.&nbsp; Yet I can go back to old 1e or OD&amp;D stuff material - even things I never saw first time round, like Palace of the Silver Princess or the Rules Cyclopedia - and still get the tingles.&nbsp; Last night MonsterMash leant me his copy of the new 3.5-version City State of the Invincible Overlord, apparently closely based on the original, which I've never seen - I thought it looked fantastic.&nbsp; Likewise I have got the tingles from some other non-WoTC D&amp;D products; eg I liked Lost City of Gaxmoor a lot (terrible mechanical flaws like a CR 21 BBEG in a mid-level module, great flavour) while Bastion of Broken Souls is dryasdust.&nbsp;&nbsp; There's something soulless about default-3e, I find.&nbsp; It's not just nostalgia, more a sense of possibilities &amp; excitement inherent in the scenario or sourcebook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 2032124, member: 463"] I got that warm tingly feeling from 1e, 2e killed it very rapidly (eg 1e Lankhmar was cool, 2e was poorly researched garbage). After several years away I bought a few WoTC 2e Return To products like 'Slavers' and 'Return to White Plume Mountain' and found that all the magic had been dissected out of them. & Despite its technical proficiency, 3e has the same problem. Yet I can go back to old 1e or OD&D stuff material - even things I never saw first time round, like Palace of the Silver Princess or the Rules Cyclopedia - and still get the tingles. Last night MonsterMash leant me his copy of the new 3.5-version City State of the Invincible Overlord, apparently closely based on the original, which I've never seen - I thought it looked fantastic. Likewise I have got the tingles from some other non-WoTC D&D products; eg I liked Lost City of Gaxmoor a lot (terrible mechanical flaws like a CR 21 BBEG in a mid-level module, great flavour) while Bastion of Broken Souls is dryasdust. There's something soulless about default-3e, I find. It's not just nostalgia, more a sense of possibilities & excitement inherent in the scenario or sourcebook. [/QUOTE]

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